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Standing on the platform escalator is not the crime everyone says it is
Honestly, I think the whole "walk left, stand right" thing on escalators is mostly a made up rule that people get way too angry about. I ride the L in Chicago every morning and I've counted maybe 6 people in the last month who actually needed to run up the left side, while I watched a lady with a bad knee get glared at for standing on the left at the Clark/Lake stop. The real problem is that half these stations have only one narrow escalator working, so forcing everyone into a single file line just makes the backup worse at the bottom. When the escalator at my stop was out for 3 weeks, the stairs moved people faster than the escalator ever did, which tells me the walking lane isn't the magic fix people swear it is. I get that some folks are in a rush, but the metro system itself says standing on both sides moves more people overall. Has anyone here actually seen a station where the walking lane helped more than it hurt?
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