Thing is, this recent HN article... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642677 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642677 ...is actually tangentially relevant

Thing is, this recent HN article... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642677 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642677 ...is actually tangentially relevant here, if you think about it. The article this comment is attached to isn't really about "forcing" people to take the stairs, but to make using the stairs a more natural or obvious option to people. In too many tall buildings, the combination of architectural traditions and building codes lead to stairs being "out of sight, out of mind."