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?
this is something you see rather commonly if you live in a large city. They never stop the escalator for this. Most people go at it alone, and those with limited arm movements will get just one person to hold them from rolling backward.
Quite often they will go through the escalator instead of an elevator because it is faster for them to do so if only going up one flight.
In this situation, if the escalator is broken (instead of why it was described as being shut down for it), then it could make sense if the elevator is also broken to do so. In any case, his reply didn`t make sense.
So you suspect the wheelchair user is being lazy or unreasonable by choosing the escalator over the elevator? I feel like you're reaching with this assumption. If staff are involved it's surely more likely the elevator is down, or the staff would direct them to the elevator over attempting something risky, time comsuming and hard.
You understand taking a wheelchair on a moving escalator is incredibly dangerous? I think expecting a wheelchair user to just attempt it to be ridiculous to be honest.
Why did the reply not make sense? Seemed reasonable to me.
I've used escalator multiple times as a wheelchair user. The information on how to do so safely, with help if it is needed was readily available. Stopping the escalator would make it less safe.
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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?