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I walked up and down those many times as a student at the LSE. It would've driven me mad if I'd had to stand; very, very few things annoy me as much as being st
by envy2 11y ago
I walked up and down those many times as a student at the LSE. It would've driven me mad if I'd had to stand; very, very few things annoy me as much as being stuck behind people (or traffic) moving unnecessarily slowly.
While obviously not everyone will be able to walk, we should be encouraging more people to do so and certainly not slowing down those who are able and willing just to make more room for the lazy. I find it hard to imagine that the percentage of people who are physically incapable rather than just unwilling to climb an escalator is large enough to cause meaningful congestion.
- tomjen3 11y agoAgreed, but even simpler they could just make the escalator faster. That would more more people per time unit.
- Silhouette 11y agoIt would've driven me mad if I'd had to stand; very, very few things annoy me as much as being stuck behind people (or traffic) moving unnecessarily slowly. Isn't this exactly the point, though? At peak times, there are significant crowds around the entrances to escalators at busy Underground stations, and those crowds hold everyone up regardless of their preference for standing or walking. The idea here is to avoid the crowds forming a bottleneck in the first place, or at least to reduce the delay if there are still too many people to sustain full throughput.