Escalators...... WTF
10 August 2003, 02:35 PM
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Fair comment Dave 
but those lanes go on for ages....good old Edinburgh doesn't have an underground and I'm just talking about escalators in department stores 
[Edited by SiPie - 10/8/2003 2:35:25 PM]
but those lanes go on for ages....good old Edinburgh doesn't have an underground and I'm just talking about escalators in department stores [Edited by SiPie - 10/8/2003 2:35:25 PM]
08 October 2003, 02:04 PM
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Life must be pretty good if this is all I find to rant about 
but.......
With the infirm and disabled excluded, along with young children and any other section of society I forgot to mention
Why don't people walk up and down the damned things..[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] and if they are that lazy not to, then why aren't there overtaking lanes on them
Rant over after taking an eternity to shop at lunchtime
but.......
With the infirm and disabled excluded, along with young children and any other section of society I forgot to mention
Why don't people walk up and down the damned things..[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] and if they are that lazy not to, then why aren't there overtaking lanes on them
Rant over after taking an eternity to shop at lunchtime
08 October 2003, 02:47 PM
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What life altering amount of time can you save by walking up it?
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In London we have a type cast of escalator users :-
"The toadstool" - person who steps off top of escalator who promptly bends down and ties shoelaces - everyone has to jump over them to avoid been crushed.
"The Eddie Irvine" weaves all the way up the escalator, colliding with people trying to get past.
"The David Blaine" - blocks the entire escalator with a hugh box or large ammounts of shopping.
"extreme sports escalator" - hard core commuter who walks at 20mph and can step on and off the escalator as if it wasn't there
"The doddery" - the challenge and effort these folk face whilst stepping on or off the escalator, is probably the same as a normal human (or monkey) tasked with balancing a box of elephants on ones head whilst crossing niagra falls via tight-rope during a particular nasty storm.
"Tube Noobie" - person who stands on the Left
"The toadstool" - person who steps off top of escalator who promptly bends down and ties shoelaces - everyone has to jump over them to avoid been crushed.
"The Eddie Irvine" weaves all the way up the escalator, colliding with people trying to get past.
"The David Blaine" - blocks the entire escalator with a hugh box or large ammounts of shopping.
"extreme sports escalator" - hard core commuter who walks at 20mph and can step on and off the escalator as if it wasn't there
"The doddery" - the challenge and effort these folk face whilst stepping on or off the escalator, is probably the same as a normal human (or monkey) tasked with balancing a box of elephants on ones head whilst crossing niagra falls via tight-rope during a particular nasty storm.
"Tube Noobie" - person who stands on the Left
08 October 2003, 04:53 PM
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The height of the steps isn't nominal I find. Walking up one at a time is like taking small steps when walking. I run up stairs two at a time usually, you can do it on a tube escalator (Tottenham Hale is a good long one ) but by God are your legs going to fall off afterwards.
) but by God are your legs going to fall off afterwards.
08 October 2003, 08:39 PM
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My boyfriend works on the escalators on London Underground.
These escalators are really old and when the parts need to be replaced the parts are huge and they have to be dismantled, sent off to be made up and then are sent back to the engineers to fit...they then have to fit these parts back in and get the machine moving. To do this they work within a margin of millimeteres and this can be very tricky and frustrating. Once they have the machine running they then have to have the machine checked over before they can put it back into service....hence why they are out for months.
Frustrating yes... but these guys work hard in tiny spaces in very hot (in the summer) or very cold (winter) conditions.
My boyfriend comes home with grease and **** in his hair. He has to work in some real ****ty conditions i.e. rats **** etc.
He could probably explain this better...
These escalators are really old and when the parts need to be replaced the parts are huge and they have to be dismantled, sent off to be made up and then are sent back to the engineers to fit...they then have to fit these parts back in and get the machine moving. To do this they work within a margin of millimeteres and this can be very tricky and frustrating. Once they have the machine running they then have to have the machine checked over before they can put it back into service....hence why they are out for months.
Frustrating yes... but these guys work hard in tiny spaces in very hot (in the summer) or very cold (winter) conditions.
My boyfriend comes home with grease and **** in his hair. He has to work in some real ****ty conditions i.e. rats **** etc.
He could probably explain this better...
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sipie: PS If anyone digs up my post about why people stand still rather than walk up escalators to save time then I was just having a bad day... OK
You mean this one?
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