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 ...

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 ...

HOLYOKE ― The music, dancing and joy of a traditional Puerto Rican parranda filled Holyoke Mall on Dec. 14 — right up until the escalator carrying the celebrants buckled under their feet, turning the ...

If you are designing a building and need to move many people up or down, you probably will at least consider an escalator. In fact, if you visit most large airports these days, they even use a similar ...

India, Dec. 8 -- In a bid to enhance commuter safety on the high-speed Namo Bharat corridor, the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) has launched a special awareness campaign on the ...

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 ...

An ordinance to stop people from walking on escalators has been introduced in a city in Japan. The order went into effect in Nagoya on 1 October and prohibits people from walking on escalators in a ...

Recognizing that your escalator anxiety has a name can be surprisingly comforting. Escalaphobia is a common specific phobia affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals all around the world. This ...

This article was made possible by a fellowship from the Center for the Study of Origins at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In June 2015 Donald Trump rode an escalator into the lobby of Trump ...

A video of a Nigerian woma using an escalator for the first time has emerged. In the video, the terrified woman was seen singing praises to the Lord while entering the escalator as onlookers marvel at ...