Crash999 Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 It's a road that's so familiar to us Bangkokians and Pattayans. So do any of you know the origin of the name Sukhumvit? Am curious! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 How about Phetchakasem Road.. which runs South from BKK, all the way through Cha Am, Hua Hin, Prachuapkirikhan..... and on and on? I'm assuming that 'Phetch' refers to diamond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markle Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 It has been mentioned before but I forget the details but I'm pretty sure it's the name of a high ranking official when the original road was built. Keep in mind that when these roads were originally built roadworks were defintely the poor relation of railways and canals as far as transport in the Kingdom was concerned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeng bireley Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 Its the honarary name given to the minister responsible for highways in the 1940's or 1950's ? Honarary names were often given like titles usually an exotic sounding sanskrit name with a flowery meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 daeng bireley said:Honarary names were often given like titles usually an exotic sounding sanskrit name with a flowery meaning. I'm quite sure the Sukh- in the name is the same as in the town Sukhotai ("Dawn of Happiness"), meaning happiness. Not sure about the -umvit though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 markle said:Keep in mind that when these roads were originally built roadworks were defintely the poor relation of railways and canals as far as transport in the Kingdom was concerned I'm straying a bit here, but I read in some historical records that the Thais could not be persuaded to be employed in roadworks, since they didn't want to dirty themselves with muck and dust. The engineers could only find Chinese willing to do the job. The same was true when the first railway tracks were laid. As Trink always says, "Any comment is superfluous". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markle Posted December 29, 2003 Report Share Posted December 29, 2003 I'm straying a bit here, but I read in some historical records that the Thais could not be persuaded to be employed in roadworks, since they didn't want to dirty themselves with muck and dust. The engineers could only find Chinese willing to do the job. The same was true when the first railway tracks were laid. As Trink always says, "Any comment is superfluous". And I'm sure the same was true of the White Americans when it came to building the American railways. As I always say "Trink is a dickhead". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash999 Posted January 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Well no definitive answer on this one yet. I asked a couple of Thai friends and neither of them know the answer. My girlfriend just gave me a look and commented that I always seem to take a keen interest in weird questions like this. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 I think Sukhumvit is named after Prasong Sukhum, an engineer who built a bunch of roads in Thailand. I met his little brother once, he was about 80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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