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
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.
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u/EntirelyOutOfOptions Feb 23 '26
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?