The article you’re commenting on has a link to 10 thousand injuries a year. Did you not notice that the same way you don’t notice that you’re not alone in the universe? Keeping in mind that most accidental pushes don’t result in injuries worth reporting, why is it so incredible to you that pushing and shoving on a…

You get on and off something, you’re riding. If you don’t want a ride climb real stairs not escalators.

Well if you’re going to talk about what happens in places where people are polite like Canada or Japan, you are not arguing in good faith at all. ;-)

You do sound exactly like someone Elon would be perfectly willing to blast off this planet. I hope it happens soon.

My goodness, do you seriously think that someone complaining about how inconsiderate people can be doesn’t step aside to let people pass? Of course I do, but, I don’t understand why people like you can’t understand that the escalator or moving walkway is going exactly where your steps would have taken you even if you…

Are you kidding me? They mean don’t rely on them (canes, walkers) or be inside them (strollers) because you’re supposed to have both hands free if possible and the wheeled things can roll away. The rails they provide on both sides are supposed to become your means of support until you step off.

Only someone coming from another planet doesn’t know that strollers fold and standing closer to one side of the escalator step automatically means you’re closer to the mechanism especially if you’re only a couple of feet tall. Go back to Mars and stop posting on human sites.

What are you talking about? You can have a cane if it’s hooked on your arm like an umbrella and a folded up stroller is allowed and no more dangerous than a folded up umbrella or any other bag or purse you might carry on the escalator. What’s making these people carry these items in an unsafe way and put a child on…

Einstein, strollers fold up but they don't disappear and neither do the kids that were sitting in them. So all of that still has to go on the escalator and since you want to pass, everyone stands closer to the mechanism along the side than they would if you could just hang on a sec and stay on your step.

You can’t have it both ways. You want to pass? That means people have to stand in a way that makes it possible for you.

Then don’t maybe you’re lucky or maybe you’re oblivious because no one has had an injury you couldn’t ignore.

Yes, the liability of people having accidents. If you think a few million will make it okay if you stumble down am escalator and break your neck go ahead and try it when you can’t drag someone down with you. That's all I'm saying.

So you think the companies are issuing these guidelines because walking on them breaks down their elevators? You realize that elevators outlast their warranties by decades so the profitable thing for their makers would be to encourage behavior that makes them need expensive maintenance and replacement parts. 

But that’s the thing with this habit. If there are fifty people on an escalator and you want to pass all of them you are bound to be making a few of them take unnecessary risks because you’re going too fast to even notice that they have to lift their cane or scoot their stroller so far to the side that their child…

There’s no etiquette for passing others, there’s just a habit of doing it while others accommodate it.

They were both invented to do the same thing: take people from one level to the next without them moving. If you want to move take the real stairs.

*sigh* Of course you stand aside, I’m saying (and so are the makers of these things) that this should be something that happens occasionally like when there’s a real rush not just because some people can’t stand still for the few seconds that an escalator ride take.

I take the stairs as often as I can. Even when you have to go out of your way, it’s never crowded because people will pay to climb stairs at the gym but ignore the staircases-sometimes right alongside the escalators-and think they’re being athletic or efficient by nudging past others.

No, I’ve just seen a few accidents (minor ones, thankfully), seen many more near misses and now that people are doing this while checking their phones it’s getting even worse. I do stand aside but I don’t get the need to pass people when the escalator is going to get you wherever you want even if you just stand on…

I DO move to the right. What I’m asking is why people on this thing that is moving anyways can’t just wait for it to do what it’s supposed to do? And why their need to keep moving trumps their consideration for people with disabilities, parcels, children or whatever can make it harder to move aside ?