Busy bridges
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Beauty can sometimes be found in unexpected places , including here amid twisting concrete overpasses and glimmering streetlights. Despite its rather mundane name, the Industrial Ring Road is part of an impressive update to Bangkok's traffic system ordered by King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the early 2000s. The Thai capital's traffic jams are still infamous, but the Ring Road's tangled transitways offer some relief from the gridlock, flanked by towering twin bridges named Bhumibol 1 and Bhumibol 2 (the latter seen at left).
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