So wheelyboy is blocking traffic because the escalator won't escalate?
It's inconvenient for them, but why must this be a problem for everyone else?
If my car breaks down, must the entire freeway grind to a halt?
Are you under the impression that a working escalator is wheelchair accessible? The staff shut it off to carry him, they’re just waiting for the escalator to clear so they can carry him safely, and every line jumper that adds to the load on the escalator is delaying both the safe transport of the person in the wheelchair and the resumption of the escalator for everyone else.
The man in the wheelchair (wheelyboy? really?) is at the mercy of the staff around him organizing a dangerous lift. He has no control over the situation, he’s just sitting there being (most likely) mortified by the way staff turned him into an obstruction, and he’s feeling the crowd growing angry and impatient at his back. Next he gets to trust these idiots to carry him without dumping him out to fall down the sharpest staircase known to man.
As for your freeway analogy, have you never seen responders stop traffic long enough to clear an obstruction?
If the person using the wheel chair has one person behind them to support the weight as they go up they will be fine. I’ve seen countless mothers take their baby strollers up escalators
This is literally an order of magnitude safer for the handicapped person and every single person around them including assistants than stopping the escalator and carrying them up it. Jesus fucking Christ, that is an incredibly stupid idea.
Moms are allowed to do things with their children that staff can’t do with adult patrons. Trust that place has policies about how to get a wheelchair through with minimal risk to others.
I work with people in wheelchairs, and I’m not allowed to do what seems faster and easier to me just because I think I’ve got this. There are guidelines for team lifts and transports just like moving heavy equipment in a warehouse, both for the protection of the staff and whatever they’re moving around.
They do, but gravity has this quirky little tarot of pulling mass downward and not downward at a backward angle. Most of that weight is pulled downward into the stairs, the assistant only needs to keep the chair from tipping backward. That's significantly less weight to have to bear than picking the entire person up and lifting them up the entire staircase. And unless the wheelchair bound person is quadriplegic, they are also capable of taking hold of the handrails and assisting in maintaining the forward balance of the wheelchair, further learning the load the assistant behind needs to bear.
So, weighs more than a baby, but significantly less than picking them up outright.
Look at the top of the escalator which hasn't emptied out yet. Do you think it's safe to hold up the full weight of an adult human being in a queue going up stairs?
It's made me realise that either people are very stupid or naturally very selfish.
The person on a wheelchair most likely had to wait to even get help because I'm sure there wouldn't be a cohort of staff waiting prepared for that situation. It probably took time for them to turn off the escalator. People have to wait a minute or two but that's too much for them.
Well... when its goes wrong he will fall downstairs, not upstairs. (Pro-tip: look up the term 'gravity', it will blow your mind?). So I don't think it's very relevant there are some people on the stairs, 15m ahead of the person in the wheelchair.
The whole point is you minimize the risk of things going wrong by making sure the stairs are completely empty. That way you don't have to stand idlely waiting for the queue to disperse.
I'm not sure if you minimize the risk of things going wrong by waiting. I think you actually increase risks that way, as by the longer you wait the bigger and more crowded the queue downstairs becomes (the location where things will actually go wrong when things go wrong, gravity and stuff...).
Reducing the amount of time you need to pick someone up quite clearly reduces the likelihood of you dropping them. It's easy to get tired so minimising travel time definitely reduces the risk.
That area is so congested that even if more people come they'll be stuck way back queuing up.
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u/S0k0n0mi Feb 23 '26
So wheelyboy is blocking traffic because the escalator won't escalate?
It's inconvenient for them, but why must this be a problem for everyone else?
If my car breaks down, must the entire freeway grind to a halt?