Connolly Escalator

corktina

true-or-false wrote: »

I'm a fast walker, I get infuriated by people slowly walking in front of me on a daily basis. But the Connolly escalators???

If I'm in a rush to get a train I go up the steps. The escalator is specifically designed to carry people; the stairs are specifically designed for people to walk up. If you're insisting on trying to push your way up the escalator then it's your own fault you're getting stuck. It's not even like the escalator is closer, they're pretty much in the same place. It sounds like you're cutting off your nose to spite your face OP.

wrong...the purpose of the escalator is to help clear large number of people quickly. Hence walking up them is the thing to do just as you would do on stairs.

Solair

Ireland has a grand total of 1 escalator in the entire public transport system.

The tube's all about escalators and has hundreds of the things and there are regular announcements reminding you to "stand on the right and walk on the left while using the escalator" (in a school marm voice)

You'd really hardly expect people in Dublin to be used to using public transport escalators.

They're a way of life in London and other cities with large, deep metros/undergrounds.

You don't push past / walk past people on escalators in retail outlets / malls / shopping centres / department stores etc, and that's where most Irish people use escalators.

Cookie_Monster

Solair wrote: »

Ireland has a grand total of 1 escalator in the entire public transport system.

Pearse has a couple at least and Connolly. 3-4?

Solair

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Pearse has a couple at least and Connolly. 3-4?

It's still a tiny number of escalators. They're not a big part of most Irish commuters' experience.

Also, to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure that pushing past people on escalators is a very good idea. I don't know why people are so rushed all the time.

I saw an elderly person take a tumble on an escalator in Brussels because someone rudely pushed past and she couldn't hold on. She didn't get badly injured (thankfully) as someone caught her from behind!

I've seen similar situations in London too with people really getting very aggressive about getting past people who were either totally unaware of the 'rule' or who just couldn't get sufficiently out of the way e.g. had a big bag or whatever.

Likewise in Paris where there are escalators on the Metro.

The reason it's not encouraged in the USA is because of the potential litigation that it would bring about and I think in Ireland if CIE were to start pushing the notion that people should walk on escalators it wouldn't be long before someone would walk, fall, and sue.

juan.kerr

Solair wrote: »

Ireland has a grand total of 1 escalator in the entire public transport system.

Tara Street plus Pearse and Connolly as someone else mentioned.

Cookie_Monster

Solair wrote: »

Also, to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure that pushing past people on escalators is a very good idea. I don't know why people are so rushed all the time.

if people are stupid enough to just stand there what do they expect...

corktina

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

if people are stupid enough to just stand there what do they expect...

after all, you wouldn't stand in the middle of a flight of stairs would you.

dermo88

Having travelled, I think there needs to be an etiquette, or failing that an indication, that if you are not walking up the escalator, at least stand to the left and allow those who want to go faster to go by the right. That's how it works in Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore. That's how it works in London. Besides, how many stations in Ireland have the damn things......

Conolly, Tara Street, Pearse Street, Grand Canal Street, that's about it from memory. that's hardly much of a training ground. Had the Interconnector gone ahead as expected by 2016, now on the long finger, you could add on 5 more stations to that.

Dermighty

Anthony Bourdain: "Escalators help you walk faster, not to avoid walking entirely you fat useless lump"