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Via Urban Cartography, I love this image of a train moving through an urban marketplace that seems to have figured out to the inch where it can exist in relation to the passing train (and the retractable awnings can be drawn back when the time comes). I believe this is somewhere in India, and I’ve seen video footage similar to this before — quite a remarkable process (and it really makes our supermarkets with wide aisles, parking lots, etc. seem incredibly like an incredibly inefficient use of space).

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4 Responses to “Shared Space”

  1. SteveL Says:
    August 1st, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    The train to Darjeeling is like this; it goes up to the houses and follows a path over the road. As it runs once a day, there is little contention.

  2. Tibor Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 am

    Manila seems to be rather “famous” for this sort of thing. I’ve heard it’s a big issue, as there’s lots of casualties among the people living (illegally) on the tracks.
    http://tornandfrayed.typepad.com/tornandfrayed/2005/11/howie_severino_.html
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philippine_National_Railways_Manila_squatter.jpg

  3. TransportGooru Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    This is the Mae Klong market in Samut Songkhram, Thailand. This town is roughly 60 miles west of Bangkok and is Thailand ’s smallest province by area. Here is a wonderful video of the market folk in action (cleaning up and moving away from the tracks as the train approaches):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA4BKpArVHc (video 1)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41icSIsIsZE (video 2)

    Also, here are a few more pictures of the market:
    http://www.thaismile.jp/FotoGallary/ThaiPics/e_ThaiPhoto_SamutSongkhram.html

  4. Anibal Dumdei Says:
    March 9th, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    Could you please translate your site into Thai since I’m not very decent reading it in English? I’m getting exhausted of using Google Translate all the time, there is a handy WP plugin named like global translator which will translate all your posts automatically- that would make reading posts on your great blog even more enjoyable. Cheers dude, Anibal Dumdei!

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