Vietnamese authorities have been trying to shut down “Train Street” over mounting safety concerns. But tourists just won’t stop coming.
or nearly a year now, authorities in Hanoi have been trying to shut down “Train Street,” one of the city’s most famous unofficial attractions, where trains buzz by mere feet away from where people regularly sip coffee or beer in a row of open-air cafes.
But tourists just won’t stop coming, it seems, despite mounting safety concerns over the crowds gathering around the social-media-famous train tracks. The century-old railway, built by Vietnam’s former French colonial rulers in 1902, cuts through the heart of bustling neighborhoods in Hanoi’s Old Quarter. What used to be a normal feature of everyday life for the district’s residents has over the last five years grown into one of the city’s most iconic tourist attractions—and the latest victim of overtourism.
“[Tourists] don’t have anyone taking care [of them],” he says. “Sometimes they don’t know the distance to stand for safety. Many coffee shop owners, they see tourists taking photos, they will have to shout at them to come inside.” Visitors and tourists stand on the sides of a railway track to photograph a passing train in Hanoi, June 9, 2019.Similar streets, situated at active railways, have also attracted tourists in other parts of Asia, including
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