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No Western person would be comfortable riding an escalator side by side with a stranger (aka weirdo in UK speak) for the equivalent of fifty to a hundred steps
by tfolbrecht 11y ago
No Western person would be comfortable riding an escalator side by side with a stranger (aka weirdo in UK speak) for the equivalent of fifty to a hundred steps of stairs in a hot smelly subway so dirty your snot turns sooty. Standing on the right to allow others to walk up the left is not a technical optimization constructed by the impatient of the world. The real optimization problem is you're dealing with people and not frictionless spheres. X number of people walking up the left is faster than zero.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoI don't get how this is an argument for an escalator to or from a subway, that is completely disregarded while standing shoulder to shoulder and face to face while actually on the subway.
- lttlrck 11y agoThey just came from an underground carriage where they were almost certainly standing next to multiple strangers in a much more uncomfortable environment.
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