How close to a railroad track can you set up a vegetable market?

[Sharuf]

Here comes the 2:10 to Mumbai.

http://www.wimp.com/vegetablemarket/

[HillJ]

Thank you for sharing both videos.

[zooxanthellae]

Consensus around the internet seems to be that this is Thailand, not India (and the people don't look Indian, anyway).

A slower, more recent view can be found around 15:30 of this video (the video, which is composed of mornings around the world, is worth watching in its entirety IMO):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=...!

At any rate it seems like everyone's well-prepared for a not-very-fast train, so I imagine people get hit very rarely.

[zooxanthellae]

Oh, and in addition, I asked a friend of mine from Thailand about this. He said that no one gets hit because the train makes a very loud warning sound before it comes through. He also said that he doesn't know exactly why the market is in such a seemingly inconvenient place, but he thinks that the market was located there first (i.e. before the tracks were laid through it) and that the people just don't want to move.

[mliew]

I think I remember seeing something similar in Thailand on Bourdain's show as well. Probably pretty common in Asia.

You would think that they could find a better place for the markets. I wonder how many people get hit or how many stands get taken out by the train on a regular basis. Is it really worth that extra few feet of space?

[Kajikit]

I love the way all the awnings go down in sync as soon as the train has passed...

[arashall]

Somehow I knew this was going to be about India before I saw the video :-)