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Despite high hopes for these \u2018sustainable\u2019 transportation projects, little scholarly attention has focused on the inequities and negative impacts associated with their construction and operations. Specifically, the displacements and insecurities faced by Hanoi residents living or working along these lines have been largely overlooked. Drawing on conceptual debates from the recent infrastructure turn, we examine how Hanoi\u2019s first two urban railway lines have disrupted the lives and livelihoods of local residents. Our findings are based upon in-depth qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2019, 2022, and 2024, including interviews, a photovoice project along Line 2A, and an ethnographic case study of an alley partly destroyed by Line 3\u2019s construction. We find that the land acquisition and construction processes have inflicted infrastructural violence on numerous nearby residents and workers, creating categories of \u2018lucky\u2019, \u2018unlucky\u2019, and \u2018least lucky\u2019 residents. We investigate how some residents are adapting by establishing new livelihoods beneath or alongside the lines, carving out opportunities in otherwise underutilised spaces. 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