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Escalators and autowalks

  • 09-02-2010 04:57PM
    #1
    philiy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭philiy


    I always walk when Im on these and it wrecks my head when people stand on them and get in your way, they are designed to help people move at a faster rate to avoide hold ups in high traffic areas.

    If you are not going to walk while on them, at least move to the side.


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  • #2
    Menengroth™
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Menengroth™


    make a facebook group about it, then the world is your oyster.


  • #3
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    I wanna make love on one. Just the one thats going down though.


  • #4
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1193


  • #5
    paddydriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭paddydriver


    I always ensure the pram is right in the middle and then I hold one rail and get daughter to hold other:D - Bet I would really annoy you:eek:


  • #6
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Jerry Seinfeld did it


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  • #7
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I put cellophane across the exit.


  • #8
    lisbon_lions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭lisbon_lions


    Wanna stand? <--- Keep left. Wanna walk? ---> Keep right. simple.


  • #9
    HxGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 767 ✭✭✭HxGH


    Thats crazy!

    I was just thinking of this earlier!

    Why must they stop?

    I can't get my head around it! :mad:


  • #10
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Its the fcukers that stop at the top/bottom who annoy me. Move bitch or I'm gonna bump into you and put a baby in you!


  • #11
    philiy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭philiy


    dvpower wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1193

    point taken


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  • #12
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    philiy wrote: »
    they are designed to help people move at a faster rate to avoide hold ups in high traffic areas.


    Love Escalators, especially cos that they can never break, they just become stairs.


  • #13
    AttackThePoster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭AttackThePoster


    Terrible thread, would never read again.


  • #14
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    lisbon_lions wrote: »
    Wanna stand? <--- Keep left. Wanna walk? ---> Keep right. simple.

    First time I went to London I soon realised they had this convention worked out completely. If you were standing on the left then you best be prepared for someone ploughing into the back of you high speed. None of that British "oh I'm terribly sorry" neither.


  • #15
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    6th wrote: »
    I wanna make love on one. Just the one thats going down though.

    Would you not be worried you might accidently catch your wee willy winky in the metal teeth of the bottom step. Ouch!


  • #16
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    bonerm wrote: »
    First time I went to London I soon realised they had this convention worked out completely. If you were standing on the left then you best be prepared for someone ploughing into the back of you high speed. None of that British "oh I'm terribly sorry" neither.

    Bring the Brits back, I say.


  • #17
    Whippersnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Whippersnapper


    Is it stupidity or laziness or both? It drives me insane!!!


  • #18
    AttackThePoster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭AttackThePoster


    WindSock wrote: »
    Bring the Brits back, I say.

    -1


  • #19
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    The unwritten rule across all of Europe is stand on the right. Why us Irish have to be different and stand all over the shop is beyond me.


  • #20
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Whippersnapper wrote: »
    Is it stupidity or laziness or both? It drives me insane!!!

    What, starting threads to complain about something that people could care less about?


  • #21
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    philiy wrote: »
    I always walk when Im on these and it wrecks my head when people stand on them and get in your way, they are designed to help people move at a faster rate to avoide hold ups in high traffic areas.

    If you are not going to walk while on them, at least move to the side.

    All the slow lazy people are on the escalators, so you should use the almost always empty stairs and run up/down them as fast as you wish.


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  • #22
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    lisbon_lions wrote: »
    Wanna stand? <--- Keep left. Wanna walk? ---> Keep right. simple.

    If its so simple, how did you get it arse-ways?


  • #23
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    enda1 wrote: »
    If its so simple, how did you get it arse-ways?

    Where did this stand on the left thing come from??


  • #24
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    syklops wrote: »
    Where did this stand on the left thing come from??

    No idea.

    Its stand on the right everywhere I've ever been.


  • #25
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    I've experience of how well this unwritten rule can work. In London up and down to the underground you must stand on the right, and let those who want to walk go on the left. It's easy. really don't know why it couldn't work here. It seems people just don't care enough. Well in fairness there's a lot more people in London than there is in any city here, so it's probably more necessary there. I don't walk on the escalators though, unless i'm in a hurry. On the flat ones in airports I do, you'd be 12 days trying to get where you're going if you didn't.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
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    syklops wrote: »
    The unwritten rule across all of Europe is stand on the right. Why us Irish have to be different and stand all over the shop is beyond me.

    In the words of the Dunnes stores advert "It's because we're Irish" :rolleyes:


  • #27
    lisbon_lions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭lisbon_lions


    enda1 wrote: »
    If its so simple, how did you get it arse-ways?

    Says whom? Every escalator i've been on, I choose to stand left walk right. Not my fault if everyone else has a different rule book.


  • #28
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    lisbon_lions wrote: »
    Says whom? Every escalator i've been on, I choose to stand left walk right. Not my fault if everyone else has a different rule book.

    Yes it is.


  • #29
    witchgirl26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭witchgirl26


    Whippersnapper wrote: »
    Is it stupidity or laziness or both? It drives me insane!!!

    Or in the case of some people I know, they have problems with their legs & walking around a lot so take a bit of a break while on an escalator or an autowalk. That said they do keep to the right like you should.


  • #30
    lisbon_lions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭lisbon_lions


    enda1 wrote: »
    Yes it is.
    Ah dry yer eyes would ye


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  • #31
    Ciaran187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭Ciaran187


    I've never seen stand right walk left in Ireland. Every one I've seen is stand lift walk right. It's based of traffic. Traffic passes on the right.

    Also why you should walk on the left side of a hallway etc.


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