Occasionally, I find myself in a two-story shopping establishment and I wonder if it’s just easier to try to scale the down escalator instead of walking a hundred or so feet to the up escalator. This ...

The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission has released an audit highlighting significant safety concerns regarding the ...

Among the 14 Metrorail stations visited by auditors all were not displaying or maintaining inspection certificates required ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was leaving an underground transit station and making my way to the escalator to go up to the street when I noticed a tall young man gaining rapidly on me from behind. We have an ...

I have discovered a perfect microcosm of what is wrong with public services. At Victoria Station in London, there is an escalator system that seems devised to cause maximum delay and physical ...

For most of us, a ride on an escalator is a pretty mundane activity. Then again, most of us aren't Olympic athletes.Swiss freestyle skier Fabian Bösch decided to ride a PyeongChang escalator with his ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Subway riders pay ...

Reduction in escalator standby energy consumption called an opportunity that cannot be disregarded. European elevators put in standby mode consume anywhere between 4.2% and 90.3% of their overall ...

President Donald Trump used an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter at the United Nations to paint the global body as dysfunctional ...

The City of Sydney has given new meaning to the phrase “temporary closure”, with long suffering commuters waiting nearly two ...

Escalators are confusing, dangerous, and sometimes just plain scary. They're especially treacherous in airports and train stations. Watch how this dog tries to figure one out. Get the latest news and ...