Sorry for the convenience.

I once got stuck on a broken escalator. It was horrible. I was there for three hours!

Sure, you can walk on them, marathonmitter, but I once got stuck in one of the deepest holes in London when the stairs weren't moving, and had to walk up. I lost count after about four hundred.

oldebayer: I once got stuck in one of the deepest holes in London

That'll teach you to have sex with Madonna.

eddyatwork: That'll teach you to have sex with Madonna.

Zing!

/think of "zing" as a +1

FTA: A "defective escalator" caused overcrowding which forced the closure of a Tube station

They were using it as stairs, but it wasn't getting people out fast enough, so the station got over-crowded. Which means you start running the risk of having people fall onto the tracks. So they closed it to let people clear it out. Tube stations can get absolutely packed in about 2 minutes if there's some kind of hold-up.

Subby lives someplace where 2 cars a day is considered traffic?

So Westfield owns all the malls in the UK too?

eddyatwork: I once got stuck on a broken escalator. It was horrible. I was there for three hours!

There was a pretty silly SNL skit about that... all the whining and bonding and craziness :)

/when else am I going to post my "llama on an escalator" pic?

Now I'm starving for a club sandwich.

Also depends on if they are working on them at the time. Under that plate you step one before you get on the escalator is the mechanics.




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eddyatwork: oldebayer: I once got stuck in one of the deepest holes in London

That'll teach you to have sex with Madonna.

*snerks*

NICE.

Redwing: Sorry for the convenience.

I see what you did there.

/I miss Mitch...RIP

Subby, you don't know how many idiots see escalators and just want to stand there! Even if it's not moving! We are sheeple!

/technology is ruining us!

Kublai Khan: Tube stations can get absolutely packed in about 2 minutes if there's some kind of hold-up.

Welcome everyone to London for the 2012 Olympics!

See the amazing 100-year old transport system's amazing breakdowns and spectacular lack of spare capacity!

In Atlanta's train stations, when the escalators break, they attack people.

Like switching from "up" to "down at light speed" without warning. It happens at least twice a year, usually during big events like New Years or a sporting event.

Or then there's the North Avenue station, where the escalators dump out about 4 feet from the tracks, so when the station gets packed, and people are still coming down the escalator, it starts to get really exciting down on the platform...

/takes the stairs

opiumpoopy: Kublai Khan: Tube stations can get absolutely packed in about 2 minutes if there's some kind of hold-up.

Welcome everyone to London for the 2012 Olympics!

See the amazing 100-year old transport system's amazing breakdowns and spectacular lack of spare capacity!

Remind me to be nowhere near London in summer 2012.

xtex: Like switching from "up" to "down at light speed" without warning. It happens at least twice a year, usually during big events like New Years or a sporting event.

That's because they get overweighted. This has happened recently in Japan too so there was an explanation on the news.

Basically, there's a failsafe to stop the escalators if they go over a certain weight of people. BUT, if the over amount is even more, the brakes on the safety can fail, and so the thing slides down. So you end up with an up escalator jerking to a halt for a moment, then sliding down really fast.

People pile up at the bottom and usually some people get hurt.

I routinely walked up the 120 or so steps in Porter Square station, Cambridge, Mass., USA. Sometimes everybody did, because the long escalators broke down a lot and two of them would be under repair and the third moving down. (Everybody except the ones willing to take a ride in the urinal; something I never dared.)

Escalator Temporarily Stairs. (new window)

The machinery would have been fixed more quickly, but the repair crew locked themselves out of their convertible, and with the top down, a sudden rainstorm flooded the vehicle. They had to wait for a second car.

At least this will prevent people from being eaten by the escalator... if Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is any indication of such perils...

Democrats on an escalator (new window)

LoL... they call the subway systems, tubes. ROFL

ZAZ: I routinely walked up the 120 or so steps in Porter Square station, Cambridge, Mass., USA. Sometimes everybody did, because the long escalators broke down a lot and two of them would be under repair and the third moving down. (Everybody except the ones willing to take a ride in the urinal; something I never dared.)

Yeah, I've walked up the stairs at Porter too. Despite the fact that I'm fat and out of shape, it's not as bad as it looks.

Broken escalators and elevators have been endemic on the MBTA for *years*. I can remember this being a problem when I did a year and a half contract gig commuting to Southie via the Red Line in 2005-2006. Don't know if things have improved since.

joshiz: Redwing: Sorry for the convenience.

I see what you did there.

/I miss Mitch...RIP

I ran tho this thread to see if Mitch would mentioned. Bush, search party of three.

/Saw him twice. Miss him more.

oldebayer:
Sure, you can walk on them, marathonmitter, but I once got stuck in one of the deepest holes in London when the stairs weren't moving, and had to walk up. I lost count after about four hundred.

Ugh that happens to me everytime I go to London, which is luckily quite rarely. You spend 30 minutes walking up the steps to get out of the hellhole. When it craps out during rush hour it is even worse. You end up stuck behind really old people who won't get out the way and you have to beat them to death and throw their battered broken corpses back down.

I personally prefer the ride in the Fallopian Tubes.

JesterGirl:

LOL. Old, I guess, but new to me.

Teleport?

Redwing: Sorry for the convenience.

Thread done in one.

Several times I've ridden one of the longest escalators in the world in Washington, D.C. for its subway lines. It's a helluva view getting on it from street level then staring down about 500 feet at about a 40 degree angle.

APPROVES (new window)

This could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned them to fear and respect that escalator.

Kublai Khan: Remind me to be nowhere near London in summer of 2012. any year

Fixed, etc.

RIP Mitch.

I came in only to say that I hate everyone who stands on escalators and blocks them instead of walking. This seems to be about 97% of humanity, so I hate you all.

Jestergirl

Awesome. Great taste in music and funny pictures. So very win.

itazurakko: So Westfield owns all the malls in the UK too?

That was my main takeaway too...gawd those Westfield malls are nasty - why would they want em in the UK?

Jestergirl

Joaquin PhEOnix? Fee-on-ix?

this lady would be brokenhearted (new window)

Came here for the Mitch love.

Fark delivers.

Apparently they don't listen to Mitch at Giants Stadium.

I can't just stand on escalators. I always want to climb simultaneously. It gets you there faster.

Oh yes I totally feel like walking 6-10 stories up (Central line) with my 25 pound backpack.
You people really don't know what you're talking about.

/lives at Angel
//does not climb the escalator from hell

Yeah, because it's super easy using stairs when you have a stroller, luggage, a walking defect not involving a wheelchair, small children, shopping bags...

MedTek: Oh yes I totally feel like walking 6-10 stories up (Central line) with my 25 pound backpack.
You people really don't know what you're talking about.

/lives at Angel
//does not climb the escalator from hell

Wuss.

Try doing the sears tower climb, then start talking.

6-10 stories is a cakewalk, fattie. Here, have some more cake!

Loud_Mouth_Soup: Yeah, because it's super easy using stairs when you have a stroller, luggage, a walking defect not involving a wheelchair, small children, shopping bags...

Plus these were the sort of people who go to a new mall on the first weekend it's open - you probably need to adjust your common sense filter for that.

Loud_Mouth_Soup
Yeah, because it's super easy using stairs when you have a stroller, luggage, a walking defect not involving a wheelchair, small children, shopping bags...

Are you farking kidding me?
Strollers do NOT belong on escalators!

/People with strollers on escalators should have their children revoked.