ringThe moat loop

ถนนรอบคูเมือง · Thanon Rop Khu Mueang

6.54 km, two roads, one clockwise and one counter, since 1948.

Hartmann Linge · CC BY-SA 4.0

18.7883, 98.9855 · OpenStreetMap · The map

What it is

The 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 this disk.

The long version

Inference — the loop is the city's first ring and its smallest, and the only one that is not a bypass: it does not take traffic round the centre, it takes traffic round the centre's edge and lets it in at the gates and the corners. A driver who misses a turn drives the whole square again. Everyone who has lived here has done it.

The story page argues what the loop did to the old city; the measurements page counts what is inside it.

Connected to

• The moat The water.
• Why the moat runs one way The argument.
• The grid score, zone by zone What is inside.
• Ring 1, the Superhighway ring The next ring out.

Named here by

• Ratchadamnoen Road The other one-way system.
• Chang Phueak Gate On the ring.
• Chiang Mai Gate On the ring.
• Hua Lin Corner The ring turns here.
• Katam Corner The ring turns here.
• Ku Hueang Corner The ring turns here.
• Si Phum Corner The ring turns here.
• Suan Dok Gate On the ring.
• Suan Prung Gate On the ring.
• Tha Phae Gate The ring it opens onto.
• 1900–1950 — Siam and the railway Built 1948.
• The 1945 city map Built three years later.
• How much of the road runs one way The loop.
• The municipality's roads, counted by the municipality Municipal roads.
• คู khu The roads on it.
• What this site does not have No year for the one-way.
• Why the moat runs one way The loop.
• The moat The roads on its banks.

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