I thought the problem with that other article was mostly the outrageous $10 tipping-per-person suggestion. A few people were complaining about stripping beds and wadding up towels, but most of us were concerned that hotels were once again defraying labor costs onto the consumer after charging them frankly a lot of…

Umm... *clears throat*

This is stupid bullshit. I don’t go to the train station to catch the escalator. I don’t go to the mall for a free trip on the carnival ride known as the escalator. I wasn’t in the airport for the escalator. I literally never go anywhere for the escalator. The escalator is a tool that is taking me to/from where I want…

I have a new article for them, “Put your work clothes on first before you take a shower.” The article will start with, “less area to cover when you have to clean yourself. Shower just takes 30 seconds, instead of the 5+ minutes. Your clothes will be mostly dry by the time you get to work.”

“If you’re ready to be a hero but an outcast—Batman—then next time you’re on a crowded escalator, move to the “walking” side, and stand still. Let everyone pile up behind you. Let them fill up both sides of the escalator, nice and tight. They won’t know it, but you’re actually speeding things up for them.”

Don’t forget to tip the escalator! $10/trip is the standard.

“They won’t know it, but you’re actually speeding things up for them.”

I’m all for slowing down and smelling the roses but I’m not gonna make other people miss their own shit so I can do it. Go ahead and stand on the right if you want, but intentionally blocking up traffic that could otherwise move past you is a psycho move.

If you’re ready to be a hero but an outcast—Batman—then next time you’re on a crowded escalator, move to the “walking” side, and stand still.

Fuck that. Stand on the left, walk on the right. It’s super simple. Get the fuck out of the way of people who want to keep moving. It’s like standing still in the middle of a crowded NYC sidewalk, right in the middle of everyone’s way. Is it legal? Sure, but you’re a dickhead for doing it. 

Yeah, the authors of this study clearly don’t understand the “throughput vs latency” relationship. An apropos analogy would be watching movies at home. The standers on the right are people who order BluRays from Amazon while the people walking on the left are NetFlix streamers. While it is technically true that…

The fallacy here is the conclusion that fitting 28% more passengers is a gain for the people walking up the escalators.  Their concern is their personal speed, not the efficiency of the escalator as a whole.

If I get on an escalator at the the same time as the person next to me and then start climbing. I am always off before that person. The only time that doesn’t happen is when I am stopped by a person standing on the left side of the escalator starting at their phone who refuses to move out of the way.

Nope. I’m not going to wait another 20-30 minutes for the next train because you’re too lazy to move over so I can walk on the escalator. I’ve been working all day, I WANT TO GET HOME. Get your head out of your ass, put down the tourists’ map of DC, and get out of my way.

The headline should really read “Stop Walking On Crowded Escalators”. I work in a building with escalators that are rarely crowded. I’m a walker, and I hate it when people in front of me block my path. 

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Please don't do this. You are needlessly pissing people off when they are trying to get to work or home. Let them, and sometimes us, pass just so we have a slightly better chance of making our bus or train. 

Standing may increase throughput, but it increases latency. It’s still faster on the individual level to walk up, and having that open lane for walkers allows them to have that maximum speed. You are encouraging people to restrict the ability for anyone to choose to move faster, in order to increase overall…

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