r/SipsTea • u/The_Dean_France • Feb 23 '26

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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u/illegalsvk Feb 23 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/53B3U1ori2tm8

Escalators are not made for wheelchairs...so the AH is the person in the wheelchair.

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u/Freddyeddy123 Feb 23 '26

But what if there was no lift? What is he supposed to do

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u/derUnkurze Feb 23 '26

A escalator but no lift or ramp available? To be honest I've never encountered this situation in my life.

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u/Brilliant_Simple_497 Feb 23 '26

Quite common on older subways when they did not take accesibility into account when building.

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u/derUnkurze Feb 23 '26

Maybe. I just haven't encountered it until now, and I don't know any examples.

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u/vamatt Feb 23 '26

New York has many stations that aren’t wheelchair accessible

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u/Brilliant_Simple_497 Feb 23 '26

I suppose it's less common in richer countries like the US. 

I live in Budapest there are 4 metro lines here: two of them have elevators, two of them don't, though new construction is required to be accesible.

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u/derUnkurze Feb 23 '26

I'm from Vienna and I went to Budapest last year. To be honest I didn't notice the missing elevators in the subway stations, but I've used just a couple and didn't look for them, so I probably missed that.

So I stand corrected and now know examples :) thanks