personKruba Srivichai
ครูบาศรีวิชัย · Khruba Siwichai
Built eleven and a half kilometres of mountain road in five months and twenty-two days, with no machine.
Kimtuy · CC BY-SA 4.0What it is
The monk of Lanna, 1878–1938, who organised the road up Doi Suthep. Ground was broken on 9 November 1934, Chao Kaew Nawarat cutting the first sod, and the road opened to vehicles on 30 April 1935: 11.53 km of earth and laterite, by volunteers, as many as 4,000 a day by one account.
The long version
Inference — it is the only road in this catalogue built by a congregation rather than a department, and it is the one the city is proudest of. His statue stands at its foot and the drivers of the red trucks still wai it on the way up.
Connected to
- Si Wichai Road, the road up Doi Suthep The road.
- 1935 — the monk's road The era named for it.
Named here by
- Si Wichai Road, the road up Doi Suthep Who built it.
- 1935 — the monk's road The monk.
- The Royal State Railways map, 1934 The same year.
- The monk who built a road in five months The monk.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | ถนนศรีวิชัย — Wikipedia (th) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated |
Sources
- ถนนศรีวิชัย — Wikipedia (th)
- ครูบาศรีวิชัย — Wikipedia (th)
- Legacy of a white elephant's footsteps — Chiang Mai Citylife
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there