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Another conclusion, if more people were willing to walk up longer than average escalators, there would be less congestion at peak hours.

• Tharkun 10y ago
  Indeed. Or just get rid of escalators entirely. Stairs are much cheaper and can accomodate more people. And maybe it'll dissuade people from running around with more luggage than they can carry. Lifts are of course perfectly acceptable for the diagonally challenged (wheelchairs, prams, whatnot).
  • michaelt 10y ago
    Or just get rid of escalators entirely. I'm guessing you haven't used London's tube much :) Many of the stations are very deep - the equivalent of a 15 storey building. Changing to stairs would certainly lower throughput because that's a really long climb.
    • dingo_bat 10y ago
      > Many of the stations are very deep - the equivalent of a 15 storey building I find that incredibly hard to believe. Assuming 4 meters per storey, you are saying that the London underground stations are at a depth of 60 meters. If true, that's really amazing.
      • wflynny 10y ago
        From [1], "Hampstead is the deepest station below the surface, at 58.5 metres (192 ft), as its surface building is near the top of a hill". So the deepest is about 60m, but from browsing around, it seems many are at least 40m deep. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_infrastructure#Stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_infrastruct...