What part of my comment makes you think I don’t stand aside? Just because you’re rude and act like people are peons in your way doesn’t mean others are like you.

I love all that walking past everyone like they’re in a hurry to go save the free world and then creating a bottleneck at the exits because, omigod, it’s raining. What? The thirty seconds you gained on the escalator didn’t give you control of weather systems? Dayum! 

Oh, not audio for this. 

I know you’re right but I can see we’re tilting at windmills here. Too bad these people can’t see that technology has changed things and all their entitled comments about it being just fine to risk injuring others or themselves will be dug up and served up to them in court if they do get involved in such an accident…

You see the problem with people like you is that you assume everyone would behave as rudely as you do. If this was your pet peeve you would be blocking everyone’s way with as much stubbornness as you’re hanging on to this useless and potentially harmful habit.

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.