Boy, this sounds like a good idea.

/that's sarcasm, you farkwits.

"This is a dream come true," homemaker Olga Holguin told RCN television.

LOL

...and León is getting laaaaaaarrrrrger.

Because what those godforsaken, shanty-town-livin', poverty-struck sonsabiatches really need is a multi-million dollar escalator.

I'm glad to see their government's got their best interests at heart *golf clap*

I'll raise you Oregon City's municipal elevator.

Is the government going to build gyms to provide these people with the exercise they're no longer getting climbing the hills?

Meh. I've been on Hong Kong's outdoor escalator system. It's over 2500 feet long. Now that's a biatch of a climb.

The steps at LA Universal studio sound fairly similar in height. Or does that not count since universal uses cocaine instead of making it?

So it makes you a slow-moving target with limited options for escape in Medelin? Good plan.

The 'way forward to peace' escalator stairs used at a body/head dumping ground in 3..2..

sorry for the convenience

An escalator where a funicular would normally be used?

Strange idea. Only problem is, I wouldn't want to trip at the last second and fall all the way down.

Simpsons Did It.

Next, a slide for the ride down.

I guess that Cocaine money has to be put to use somewhere.

So now they'll be poor and fat due to their government blowing a bunch of money on an escalator that results in a reduction in the amount of exercise they get instead of on something that actually helps them

sees what you did there.

It's such a daunting task climbing 28 stories of stairs after visiting the Dope man once in a day.

Maybe the architect/builder were fans of Isaac Asimov

What about the cyclist'shiatch a ride up the hill thingy in Norway?

XplodedSynapses: It's such a daunting task climbing 28 stories of stairs after visiting the Dope man once in a day.

Well, next time they should buy speed with their coke.

I submitted this with an identical headline..

FTA: Authorities plan to build a covering for inclement whether.

Waiting for the followup story: Locals unable to get home after rain breaks escalator

Should have built a cover at the same time.


/ignoring the misspelled "weather"

lotta quality metal in that thing. first time it breaks down, it will be stripped from the hillsides by the columbian equivalent of tweakers. Hell, they won't even wait for it to break.

Daleks gotta go upstairs somehow...

Ishkur: concerned:


Nah, it's cool. They've got programs in schools to make sure the kids fear and respect the escalator.

// everyone doing the Simpsons thing...what about Bart's ride on the escalator to heaven?
// I was holding the handrails, and I didn't spit over the side, but I still couldn't find it on GIS

Kim Jong Il Approves

Soon to be terrorised by the Little Red Button gang.

came for Mitch Hedberg, leaving happy, and a little stoned.

I bet it has loudspeakers. Six minutes is enough time to play "The Girl from Ipanema" a couple of times.

Shouldn't the theme song be "Stairway to Heaven" given the location and all? I guess they won't have to chew as many Coca leaves now. Whose brother in law got the contract is the real question?

Q: DO YOU HAVE STAIRS IN YOUR HOUSE???
A: I AM PROTECTED

Q: PROTECTED? WhAT KIND OF GAY ANSWER IS THAT

Building something like that outside is just stupid. The maintenance costs will be insane which probably means it will never be done, leading to them breaking down and residents just using them as stairs (assuming they don't start freewheeling down, which is a risk itself).

Come on, stop being ridiculous. This is an incredible addition to the community. There already IS a monorail... and ski-lifts gondolas. No other city on earth is making these transport innovations. A project like this is of HUGE benefit to the community, as has been proven in neighborhoods where the metrocable was built - offering them more access to health, security, and education.

It rains every day. That's not going to be a problem. We are also not living in 1988: Medellín is one of the safest Latin American cities.

Seriously, you'd think people here would be a bit more intellectually inquisitive.

vodka: The maintenance costs will be insane which probably means it will never be done, leading to them breaking down

Obviously you have not read much about this city or the extreme care that goes into maintenance of its metro and gondola (metrocable) systems. Now's a good time.

What they need is a big pulley system. When one person wants to go up, just wait for someone who is coming down to use as a counterbalance.

/has not fully thought this through