“I had no time to be polite. I had to keep on moving.” You are a very odious person and your very poor breeding shows. Only the worst sort of savage consciously discards civility.
Charles, I love you to pieces, but elsewhere in these light rail threads is a link to a story in the Guardian that pretty much puts to lie the notion that subway riders should "stand right, walk left." Doing so gives up half the escalator capacity for the sake of a fraction of its users. Instead, people should do the co-operative, sharing, we're-all-in-this-together thing and stand two folks wide on the escalator.
All you lazy fucks advocating standing still on escalators didn't actually read the study you're appealing to, did you? Because they found 100% standing was the most efficient way to move people only on very crowded escalators where people are queueing to board.
If there's enough room to stand to the right, then get the fuck out of the way. This is not a carnival ride.
@10: thank you. The escalator analogue of the rule that using the left lane for passing goes out the window doing rush hour or heavy congestion. Yes, then you fill up all lanes, but normally slower traffic/standers stay the fuck right.
Charles, you may be a man of the city but you are no man of Seattle. A true Seattleite would have spent the entire escalator ride standing politely behind that woman yet seething silently, and later complain to everyone at the office.
"No time to be polite"........Mr. Mudede, come down off your high horse, you're no better than anyone else. If you want to keep walking take the stairs. Remember, rudeness and unkind behavior is what dehumanizes dense urban areas.
Just an "excuse me" is enough to go past escalator blockers. Don't sweat the small stuff. There's plenty of other crap out there to get worked up about.
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If there's enough room to stand to the right, then get the fuck out of the way. This is not a carnival ride.
Actually, walking downwards against the motion of escalator is even faster still. Counterintuitive but true.