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I’m curious why if they are that simple escalators are basically a monopoly (at least in Canada) with repairmen making huge dollars to fix them (which they seem
by prestigious 5y ago
I’m curious why if they are that simple escalators are basically a monopoly (at least in Canada) with repairmen making huge dollars to fix them (which they seem to do on a weekly basis). I’m always wondering why somebody doesn’t disrupt it but it’s probably government corruption as per usual.
- klyrs 5y agoOne shouldn't extrapolate the difficulty of making something out of metal, from a video montage of somebody making a miniature version out of cardboard. However, there is (or, was, as I haven't been on the skytrain since march of last year) something up with escalators in the Vancouver area. Not just the frequency of outages, but I've seen quite a few go out of service for weeks, in service for a few days, and then back out again. It brings to mind some absurd conspiracy theories; my favorite being that there simply aren't enough parts to go around, and the technicians are cannibalizing one to fix another.