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Not every person moves at high speed down an escalator, brushing past people. In other parts of the country it may be customary to just stand still and wait until you get to the bottom.
Correct. More than a few BLOCKADE the rest of us from proceeding. Good grief, does a tournist not glance at those fast moving commuters in suits coming down and not encounter a revelation?
And another thing, why would any tourist in a major metropolis choose to travel on the subway during rush hour?
Memo to Tourists: Eat a leisurley breakfast and hit the Metro no sooner than 9:30 am. You will actually get seats together and your escalator blockade will have less ramifications.
Is there a sign in the metro that says you must stand to the right? Maybe they aren't aware that they're supposed to be doing that.
No, Metro refuses such signage out of concern that they would be encouraging folks to walk down the escalators. Because of our litigious society, Metro does not want to encourage walking, lest they be held liable in a trip-and-fall accident. The recent announcements are the closest WMATA has ever come to acknowledging the universal truth that commuters walk up and down the escalators.
That said, parking oneself on the left or blockading the escalator with one's group is just clueless behavior. It's like driving 45 in the left lane of a highway. It may be your "right" to occupy that left lane while you get angrily passed on the right. However, with just a tiny smidgeon of effort (moving to the right), you can still enjoy your right to the escalator or highway and ensure other people have a less stressful day. It's a win-win.
No, Metro refuses such signage out of concern that they would be encouraging folks to walk down the escalators. Because of our litigious society, Metro does not want to encourage walking, lest they be held liable in a trip-and-fall accident. The recent announcements are the closest WMATA has ever come to acknowledging the universal truth that commuters walk up and down the escalators.
That said, parking oneself on the left or blockading the escalator with one's group is just clueless behavior. It's like driving 45 in the left lane of a highway. It may be your "right" to occupy that left lane while you get angrily passed on the right. However, with just a tiny smidgeon of effort (moving to the right), you can still enjoy your right to the escalator or highway and ensure other people have a less stressful day. It's a win-win.
I don't buy that for a second, given that the escalators are not working the majority of the time, so people are walking up and down them anyways.
At my exit for metro center, the escalators haven't both been working for at least the past 4 years. If you're lucky, one is working, never both, and usually neither are.
Not every person moves at high speed down an escalator, brushing past people. In other parts of the country it may be customary to just stand still and wait until you get to the bottom.
Lazy bumpkins have too much time on their hands. Sorry, but we look up to NYC as a model not Orlando.
Lazy bumpkins have too much time on their hands. Sorry, but we look up to NYC as a model not Orlando.
More DC attitude--what a surprise.
And maybe you should think of the saftety factor--people have been knocked down by those who book down an escalator. You're not really saving that much time by walking down instead of just standing, anyway.
More DC attitude--what a surprise.
And maybe you should think of the saftety factor--people have been knocked down by those who book down an escalator. You're not really saving that much time by walking down instead of just standing, anyway.
It's still a train station. People are in rushes in train stations the world over. If it were a shopping mall, then there's really no excuse to be in such a hurry. People people have to make their trains.
I've literally had to run from terminal to terminal in airports because my flight got in late and had a connecting flight..
More DC attitude--what a surprise.
And maybe you should think of the saftety factor--people have been knocked down by those who book down an escalator. You're not really saving that much time by walking down instead of just standing, anyway.
No, that is not true. The escalators can get so crowded at rush hour as to form lines that go out to the sidewalks. Many of us have a connecting bus to catch and children at home. We do not need yet more time tacked on to our commute because the clueless cannot shift 2 feet to the right. And the same crowd must go throught the fare gate and tourists inevitably blockade that as well (plus the farecard machines) because they do not understand the system- which is understandable and forgiving.
You know, if you want to argue that tourists are in a strange place and thus disoriented, fine. This is an annoyance, not an act of war. But you are beginning to impy that this behavior is not benign ignorance, but rather something that is just benign. Well no, it is not. And you have been given some pretty good reasons why we think this way. I cannot imagine you would like it, so I must conclude that you are just baiting people.
And the term "mall" is confusing to some people -- they associate it with a shopping mall, not an expanse of grass.
If you come to DC and don't know what the National Mall is, then leave. Just...leave. No amount of your tourist dollars will make up for that level of ignorance.
You're not really saving that much time by walking down instead of just standing, anyway.
Actually, in many stations you do. You can easily shave off a couple of minutes walking down the Dupont escalator, for instance, which can mean the difference between catching one train versus another. And that saves even greater time.
Perhaps people just don't have very many places to go in orlando, so it doesn't matter as much?
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