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Why not make the escalators smaller so they only fit one person at a time? Then they could have two lanes where they used to have one and standers would natural
by faitswulff 11y ago
Why not make the escalators smaller so they only fit one person at a time? Then they could have two lanes where they used to have one and standers would naturally block walkers.
- hammock 11y agoThat would work if everyone was the same width. Which they are not
- faitswulff 11y agoI don't think your line of thinking makes sense. Escalators already account for varying widths of people. But on average, two people of varying widths can fit on an escalator. Just make the escalators more narrow so that, on average, only one person fits on the escalator.
- hammock 11y agoHave you ever been on a singlewide escalator? They have both single and double in my city. Rider comfort does not scale down linearly. It's the same story on roads, a two lane highway is going to be much wider than half the width of a four lane highway.
- faitswulff 11y agoAh, so you're saying that two singlewide escalators wouldn't fit where a doublewide escalator exists, now? That's a different and more compelling argument, but they could still do it. Also, this article is about putting rider preferences second. I would include rider comfort as one of those preferences.
- DasIch 11y agoOverhead. Two one-person escalators next to each other require more space than one two-person escalator.
- massysett 11y agoThis would get you twice as many escalators, twice the maintenance. Here in Washington DC they do a miserable job with the existing escalator fleet, I hate to imagine doubling it.