| Escalator Renovations |
[Nov. 23rd, 2005|01:32 pm] |
If this hoarding outside Green Park tube station is true, then why did it take them a whopping seventy-two weeks to fix the escalators at Baker St? Did they do them one at a time? Is there actually only one escalator renovator in the whole of old London town, dashing between underground stations, fixing escalators with a wave of his magic screwdriver?
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| Escalator Rant |
[May. 19th, 2003|01:47 pm] |
My girlfriend and I went to Brussels for the weekend a short while ago, and made an interesting discovery.
In Brussels, the escalators don't go until you within a couple of feet of them. They then start, and continue until a few seconds after you've stepped off.
It's very nifty, but a little bit disconcerting if you're used to escalators that move all the time.
I'd imagine.
I say, "I'd imagine," because one of these magical psychic escalators did not start up when we stood at the base of it, and we had to walk up. This brought home to me the fact that during my life, I've visited approaching twenty countries in four continents and yet the only places I've ever seen an escalator that's out of order are:
- Stations of the London Underground,
- This single, dormant escalator in Brussels.
In fact, I have walked up and down (or been detoured around) considerably more stationary escalators on the London Underground than I have visited countries. The escalators at Baker Street Station have been out of order for nigh on eighteen months now.
I'm not sure what point I'm trying to make here.
Please feel free to add your own broken escalator sightings in the Comments Section. |
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