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Vibhavadhi Rangsit Road
Vibhavadi Rangsit Road (, ) or Highway 31, often informally called Vibhavadi Road (), is a highway in Thailand. The road begins at the border between Phaya Thai district, Phaya Thai and Din Daeng districts in Bangkok and crosses Chatuchak (district), Chatuchak, Lak Si, and Don Mueang districts before merging with Phahonyothin Road (Highway 1) at Khu Khot subdistrict, Lam Luk Ka District, Lam Luk Ka district, Pathum Thani Province. Vibhavadi Rangsit Road doesn't have any traffic lights. It is a divided highway, with each side further divided into a main road and a frontage road. Major roads that Vibhavadi Rangsit Road intersects are Din Daeng Road (its point of origin), Sutthisan Road, Lat Phrao Road, Phahonyothin Road, Ngamwongwan Road (Highway 302), and Chaengwatthana Road (Highway 304). It is named in honor of HRH Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit (1920–1977), a well-known Thai novelist who dedicated the final decade of her life to developing rural Southern Thailand, and was kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Din Daeng District
Din Daeng (, ) is one of the 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. Its neighbours, clockwise from north, are Chatuchak, Huai Khwang, Ratchathewi, and Phaya Thai. History The district was created in 1993, when the eastern part of Phaya Thai was split off to form a new district. The district is highly populated partly due to the concentration of apartments built by National Housing Authority. They are along Din Daeng and Pracha Songkhro Roads. Its name literally means ''red soil'', it comes from a dirt road in the same name that constructed during the government of Field Marshal P. Pibulsongkram in the 1940s, which looks red in colour. Locals soon used the term Din Daeng to call the area. Today, it is better known as Din Daeng Road. Environmental According to Thailand's Pollution Control Department (PCD) Din Daeng is the noisiest district in the city. It suffers from noise pollution on the order of an average daily noise level of 71.6 to 81.6 A-weighted decibels. A-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
