Gothamist: MTA's New Energy-Efficient Escalators Not Quite Working

JMH

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:08:47 -0500

Amazing how shit like this rarely happens when it's not some government agency trying to manage the project.Certainly nobody ever injured themselves falling off an escalator at Shea Stadium.

NannyState

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:26:55 -0500

"He did not turn around, but instead tried to race against the escalator, toward the bottom." 'Racing to the bottom' is what the MTA is all about.

Snoopy

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:54:56 -0500

"Inefficiency is the first sign of success." A motto that the MTA union has held as the banner of their success.

edEx

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:29:21 -0500

MTA's New Energy-Efficient Escalators Not Quite Working Sounds like they work as good as the old non efficient versions—not at all.

babyhitler

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:22:57 -0500

they should implement my idea of buttslide bannisters. If only old people, handicapped and pregnant people didn't fuck up my ideas we'd save a million bucks a year.

Schwartzie

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:46:10 -0500

Commenters, journalists, and other "I-told-you-this-would-never-work" cynics/skeptics: When you try something new and different, does it generally work exactly as planned from the get-go? Or at the outset, does it resemble some flawed approximation of the plan until you tweak it and tune it up and realize where you weren't entirely rigorous in your thinking? The sort of criticism I'm seeing here is particularly useless.

Snoopy

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:35:58 -0500

Is the dude still racing down the up escalator trying to get down?

hungryghoast

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:37:53 -0500

hmmm, were there any that were fully broken down forcing people to walk up/down without any motorization? Cuz that's about as energy efficient as it gets.

rdc

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:23:45 -0500

Amazing how shit like this rarely happens when it's not some government agency trying to manage the project.

thenebula

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:57:32 -0500

I think you mean walking down a sleeping UP escalator... In any case, hopefully this will result in fewer breakdowns in the future.

lanciano

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:45:31 -0500

haaaaa! walking up a sleeping UP escalator. that is amusing to me. although it could also be kind of dangerous if you don't have good balance.

nicemarmot

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:24:47 -0500

This is the MTA we're talking about. We should consider ourselves lucky the escalators are just broken and not, say, explosive.