When the escalators at the University of Washington light rail station go down there’s only one solution. Make everyone stand in line and wait for the elevator. RELATED: Seattle tunnel may open in ...

Fred Jung was at the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford when he saw it. An escalator, heading ... nowhere. Jung was recently on the third floor of the mall near the food court when he spied ...

Maria Hernandez had no choice but to climb the 49 steps at a Metromover station where the elevator has been down for a month and the escalator has not worked since last fall. “It’s so inconvenient,” ...

Mitch Hedberg's excellent and hilarious routine about what happens when escalators break down aside, there is a certain strangeness and discomfort I encounter in those exact situations. It happened to ...

Sound Transit has come around to the idea that in dire circumstances, it’s OK to use a stalled escalator as stairs. But that’s only when no other escalators or staircases are available. And those ...

The Metro Board of Directors refused an idea to replace escalators in the system with staircases. The proposed $14 million conversion would take 23 “redundant” escalators that were 30 feet or shorter ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Signs advertising the health benefits of stair-climbing might get more people to forgo that easy ride up the escalator, a study suggests. Sign up here. British researchers ...

The average time between failures has shrunk, meaning escalators broke down more frequently in 2010 than either of the two prior years, according to the report. Escalators lasted an average of about ...

Sound Transit has given up on its failure-prone escalators at University of Washington Station next to Husky Stadium, and says they’ll be replaced soon by a combination of stairs and stronger ...

Maybe you remember your first time, that first tentative step onto the mystically moving stairs inside the First National Bank building in downtown Grand Forks. Jim Hawley estimates the age of the ...

Source: "Escalator and Stairs." Image by Karen Mardahl, Wikimedia, CC2.0 The Question “What if life came with little reminders to make healthy choices?” This intriguing question headlined an article ...

The stairs in Sega’s Yakuza-spinoff, Judgment, are phenomenal. The game was released stateside over three years ago, but thanks to a special Twitter account that highlights stairs in video games, the ...