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And walking-only escalators can carry even more people, provided people walk on both sides. I'm in favor of building enough escalators to give everyone a choic

And walking-only escalators can carry even more people, provided people walk on both sides. I'm in favor of building enough escalators to give everyone a choice. In an emergency situation everyone will have to walk anyway.

notacoward 10y ago
As the article clearly stated, they did leave people a choice. Some of the tube stations have more than a dozen escalators, and only some were changed to standing-only. It makes perfect sense to optimize for throughput generally, but leave some lanes for those relatively few people who need/want to walk (TFA also discusses the difference in this willingness for escalators of different lengths).