Roads of Chiang Mai https://motdang.net/roads/ 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z Chang Klan Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/chang-klan-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZSouth from the Tha Phae junction, between the old city and the river, through the quarter where British, Burmese, Indian, Yunnanese and Thai traders settled after the railway. The Night Bazaar runs along it from the head of Charoen Prathet Road; it began as a charity market on the Chong Fa school… Chang Moi Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/chang-moi-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZFrom the northeast of the wall, beside Wichayanon Road, to the Ping. Between 1910 and 1915 the outer gate and earth bank were demolished and the inner wall pierced so that Ratchawithi Road inside the moat could continue straight along it. Assessed land value in 2016–19 was 180,000 baht a square wa… Chotana Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/chotana-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe city stretch of Route 107 from Chang Phueak Gate north through Khuang Sing to Mae Rim, named on 12 December 1950 after Tim Chotana. The 2024 count at km 9 gave 42,144 vehicles a day and 6,604 motorcycles. Huay Kaew Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/huay-kaew-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZFrom Hua Lin Corner northwest past Kad Suan Kaew, the university gate and the zoo to the foot of Doi Suthep, where it becomes the monk's road. The lower section of Route 1004, Huay Kaew to Phu Phing Palace, 19.4 km in all. The 2024 count at km 4 gave 11,564 vehicles a day plus 2,701 motorcycles. Kamphaeng Din Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/kamphaeng-din-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZRuns on the line of the earthen outer wall between Loi Kroh and the Night Bazaar; a stretch of the rampart survives beside it. Historically the city's red-light quarter, the ban sao, which the road's reputation still carries. Mahidol Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/mahidol-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZRoute 1141, 7.565 km, Don Chan on the Superhighway west past Nong Hoi, over the railway and the Ping, past the airport junction to Suan Prung. Surveyed 1970, built 1972 as a two-lane bypass fixed in the comprehensive plan of the day, widened to six lanes in 1998–2001. The southern arc of the first… Nimmanhaemin Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/nimmanhaemin-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00Z1.327 km between Huay Kaew and Suthep roads, on the edge of the land Ki and Kim Ho Nimmanhaemin gave for the university in 1963. It was later absorbed into Route 11 as the western arc of the first ring, and handed back to the municipality in June 2022. Commercial from about 1987; the Soi 1 festival… Ratchadamnoen Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/ratchadamnoen-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe old city's spine, from Tha Phae Gate west to Wat Phra Singh, about 1.5 km. The Sunday walking street moved here on 31 August 2004 from Tha Phae Road. From 6 May 2021 the municipality made it one-way as part of a walkable-district pilot. Si Wichai Road, the road up Doi Suthephttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/si-wichai-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe upper half of Route 1004, from the Kruba Srivichai monument at the foot of the mountain to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. Ground broken 9 November 1934 with Chao Kaew Nawarat cutting the first sod; open to vehicles 30 April 1935; 11.53 km of earth and laterite by volunteers. Suthep Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/suthep-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZFrom Suan Dok Gate west past Wat Suan Dok and the Maharaj hospital to the university and the canal road. A count of it is not in the highway data because it is a municipal street; a public-domain photograph of its traffic is the one this record carries. Tha Phae Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/tha-phae-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZFrom the Nawarat Bridge past Wat Upakut to Tha Phae Gate, about a kilometre, on the east–west axis laid out at the founding. The land outside the gate was Ban Chiang Rueak, a trading village. The Yang Tree Road, Chiang Mai to Lamphunhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/ton-yang-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe old road south to Lamphun, the Saraphi stretch of Route 106, lined with yang-na, Dipterocarpus alatus. About a thousand were planted from the Nawarat Bridge to the provincial line under Chao Phraya Surasi, dated 20 October 1882 by Thai PBS and by a telegram of 1900 in Thai Wikipedia; the two… Wua Lai Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/roads/wua-lai-road/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZSouth from Chiang Mai Gate through the silversmiths' quarter, whose craft came with the people Kawila resettled from the Salween side. The Saturday walking street runs on it. Its naming date and any Wikipedia page are not on this disk. The moat loophttps://motdang.net/roads/rings/moat-loop/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe pair of one-way roads on the two banks of the moat: the outer bank runs clockwise, the inner counter-clockwise, so that the square is a roundabout 6.54 km round. The municipality built the roads in 1948, demolishing stretches of the wall to do it. The year the one-way system began is not on… Ring 1, the Superhighway ringhttps://motdang.net/roads/rings/ring-1/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe ring about 3 km out: the last ten kilometres of Route 11, the Superhighway, on the north and east; Mahidol Road, Route 1141, on the south; Nimmanhaemin on the west. Nobody planned it as a ring. Route 11 was built two-lane in 1968–69 to shorten the road to Bangkok and four-laned from 2001… Ring 2, the 700 Years Roadhttps://motdang.net/roads/rings/ring-2/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe middle ring, about 5 km out, named for the city's 700th anniversary of 1996. Laid out in the first comprehensive plan of 1984 and fixed by Interior Ministry Regulation 78 of 1989; designed by the Department of Town Planning, built by the Public Works Department; ground broken 11 January 1994 on… Ring 3, Route 121https://motdang.net/roads/rings/ring-3/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe outer ring, about 9 km out: a 52.957 km closed loop through Hang Dong, Saraphi, San Kamphaeng, Doi Saket, San Sai and Mae Rim, crossing the Ping twice. The west side runs along the irrigation canal, a 9.3 km road the Royal Irrigation Department built and handed to the highway department on 9… Ring 4, drawn but not dughttps://motdang.net/roads/rings/ring-4/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZA fourth ring of about 50 km through Hang Dong, Saraphi, San Kamphaeng, Doi Saket, San Sai and Mae Rim, costed at about 5,000 million baht, at the public-consultation stage as of 2025. It exists as a line on a plan and a hearing; no contract is on this disk. The homhttps://motdang.net/roads/alleys/hom-the-lane/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe lanes between houses: residential streets, living streets and service lanes in OpenStreetMap's terms; hom in Kam Mueang, soi on the postal address. The measurements page counts their length, how many end in a dead end, and how many have a name. The highway department counts none of them… The Nimman soishttps://motdang.net/roads/alleys/nimman-sois/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe numbered lanes off Nimmanhaemin Road, odd on the west side and even on the east. Soi 1 has held a festival since 1999. The lanes are counted on the measurements page from the map; the count of businesses on them is Mot Dang's job, not this site's. How a soi gets its numberhttps://motdang.net/roads/alleys/soi-numbering/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZA soi branches from a main road and is numbered along it, even numbers on one side and odd on the other, counting from the road's start; a lane off a soi is a trok or a sub-number. Named sois often carry a landowner's name. The main road's start is a decision someone made once, which is why… Chang Moi Gatehttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/chang-moi-gate/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZAn outer gate in the earthen wall, dated to 1282 in the chronicle, gone since the 1910s. Between 1910 and 1915 the earth bank and the gate were removed and the inner brick wall pierced so that Ratchawithi Road could run straight out to the new Chang Moi Road and the river. Chang Phueak Gatehttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/chang-phueak-gate/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe northern gate, formerly Hua Wiang, the head of the city. Kings entered here; the road north to Mae Rim and Fang, Route 107, still begins outside it. Chiang Mai Gatehttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/chiang-mai-gate/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe southern gate, formerly Tai Wiang, the foot of the city. A market sits against it, open before dawn, and Wua Lai Road runs south from it. Hua Lin Cornerhttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/hua-lin-corner/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe northwest corner of the moat, one of the four bastions (chaeng) added to the wall in later restorations. Where two straight sides of the moat meet, and where the one-way traffic makes its turn. Hua Lin means the head of the water channel: the moat was fed from Doi Suthep at this corner, and the… Katam Cornerhttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/katam-corner/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe southeast corner of the moat, one of the four bastions (chaeng) added to the wall in later restorations. Where two straight sides of the moat meet, and where the one-way traffic makes its turn. Katam is a fish trap in Kam Mueang; the corner where the moat water was let out and the fish gathered. Ku Hueang Cornerhttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/ku-hueang-corner/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe southwest corner of the moat, one of the four bastions (chaeng) added to the wall in later restorations. Where two straight sides of the moat meet, and where the one-way traffic makes its turn. Ku Hueang is a reliquary: a chedi to a jailer, or a prince, depending on the telling. Si Phum Cornerhttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/si-phum-corner/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe northeast corner of the moat, one of the four bastions (chaeng) added to the wall in later restorations. Where two straight sides of the moat meet, and where the one-way traffic makes its turn. The Kamphaeng Din, the outer earthen wall, begins its curve from here, and the corner was the… Suan Dok Gatehttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/suan-dok-gate/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe western gate, the flower-garden gate, named for the royal garden that became Wat Suan Dok outside it. Suthep Road leaves here for the university and Doi Suthep. Suan Prung Gatehttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/suan-prung-gate/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe second gate in the south wall, added under King Sam Fang Kaen in the 1400s, so that the south wall alone has two. The hospital of the same name is outside it. Tha Phae Gatehttps://motdang.net/roads/gates/tha-phae-gate/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe eastern gate of the walled city, at the head of Tha Phae Road, facing the river a kilometre away. Originally Chiang Rueak Gate, after the trading village outside it. Airport junctionhttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/airport-junction/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe junction of Mahidol Road with the airport approach and the road to Hang Dong, on the first ring's southern arc. It has an underpass; the year it opened is not on this disk. In the flood of 5 October 2024 the airport–cultural centre–Hai Ya stretch was impassable for small cars by early afternoon. Fa Ham underpasshttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/fa-ham-underpass/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZWhere Route 1001, the Mae Jo and Phrao road, crosses the Superhighway northeast of the city. Highway department; built from March 2015; opened 9 June 2018; a tunnel 533 m long and 31 m wide, at 1,172,771,000 baht. The busiest radial count on this side of the city passes through it: 55,708 vehicles… Khuang Sing underpasshttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/khuang-sing-underpass/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZWhere Chotana Road, Route 107, crosses the Superhighway at the northern edge of the first ring. Begun 2003 with the San Dek underpass; the contractor had bid 146 million under estimate, abandoned both at about sixty percent, and the contract was terminated in April 2007. The highway department's… Nong Hoi junctionhttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/nong-hoi-junction/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZWhere Mahidol Road crosses Route 106, the old Lamphun road, at km 2, east of the river. There is an underpass; its opening year is not on this disk. The yang trees begin a little south of here. Rincome junctionhttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/rincome-junction/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZWhere Huay Kaew Road, Nimmanhaemin and the Superhighway meet, northwest of the moat. The 2025 public-transport master plan names it a critical congestion point, and an interchange with the Superhighway is costed at 700 million baht, phase one due 2027. The hotel it is named for is gone; the name is… The seven underpasses of the middle ringhttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/ring-2-underpasses/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZThe middle ring dives under each radial highway it crosses: Routes 107, 1001, 118, 1006, 1317, 106 and 108, seven underpasses of four lanes finished by October 2005, plus an interchange at Route 11. Their names are the neighbourhoods: Sanam Luang at the government centre, Ruam Chok, Mae Khao, Buak… San Dek underpasshttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/san-dek-underpass/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZWhere the road to the Arcade bus station and Kaew Nawarat cross the Superhighway on the east. Same contract, same abandonment and same six-month rescue as Khuang Sing; opened 26 December 2007. Its original estimate was 350 million baht. In October 2024 the flood reached it from the river. San Klang interchangehttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/san-klang-interchange/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZRoute 1317 across Route 121, east of the city. Thai PBS reported it more than half built in 2025 at 1,425 million baht; a second phase of 430 million is in the five-interchange tender due 2027. San Pa Tong–Hang Dong bypass underpasshttps://motdang.net/roads/junctions/san-pa-tong-underpass/2026-09-21T00:00:00ZDepartment of Rural Roads, linking Route 121 to Route 1269: 1.83 km in all with a twin underpass of 462.5 m, 720.3 million baht, more than eighty percent built in August 2021 and due early 2022. A separate San Pa Tong interchange on Route 108, 1,246 million baht with a 679 m underpass, is due 2027.