Grooves on escalator steps that riders hardly pay attention to actually have a very important function that is paramount for safety. Escalators, the elevator counterparts available in nearly every ...

People shouldn’t walk on escalators. (It slows down the flow at rush hour.) According to a recent CBC report, all the walkers are breaking escalators faster. The Otis Elevator Company even says that ...

Sound Transit has come around to the idea that in dire circumstances, it’s OK to use a stalled escalator as stairs. But that’s only when no other escalators or staircases are available. And those ...

Are we using escalators most efficiently by standing on the right and walking on the left? A study from 2016 found it's faster for all passengers to stand on both sides. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson ...

They're something all big city-dwellers encounter. Those enormous, moving staircases are a staple of mass transit systems-- and, potentially, massive headaches. Most of the time, escalators ...

Walk to the left, stand to the right? Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said Metro would prefer that you stand. The head of Washington's Metro system said Wednesday that the custom of standing on ...

This catwalk is apparently quite captivating. A less than 30-second clip of a cat prancing the wrong way down an escalator has been viewed more than six million times since it was posted online this ...

A shopper visiting the city of Worcester was left bewildered over his encounter with a tiny escalator. Visiting Crowngate Shopping centre, the man was wandering around the store when he came upon a ...

A Canadian tourist whose foot and hand were seriously injured after getting stuck in an escalator at the Smithsonian Metro when he was 14 years old is suing Metro for $20 million. Teman Chow was ...