Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
It occurred to me while using the Lizzie Line yesterday - why do we persist with standard escalator widths when building totally new facilities? A standard width escalator is only just wide enough for someone to walk down one side while people (bigger than they used to be) stand on the other, with people having to lean over to pass others and knocking into each other, posing a risk of knocking them down. And if you order as many escalators as TfL does, specifying a wider one shouldn't be unaffordable?
Even if TfL were planning for the tried (but not overly successful) "stand on both sides" policy, they aren't even quite wide enough for that if the two people are two fully grown blokes.
Even if TfL were planning for the tried (but not overly successful) "stand on both sides" policy, they aren't even quite wide enough for that if the two people are two fully grown blokes.