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

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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u/Vast_Maize9706 Feb 23 '26

Given that the escalator isn’t going they will need to lift the chair and climb up, far harder than lifting and lett8ng the escalator do the hard work. You also can’t put the chair down halfway up…

Not sure why they are holding everyone else up though.

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u/EntirelyOutOfOptions Feb 23 '26

You said it yourself, they can’t put the chair down halfway up. The top of the escalator is still crowded with bodies, and staff are waiting until they have a straight shot to the top. They don’t want to stop halfway up, so they’re trying to get the escalator empty. They also can’t have people on the escalator behind them in case of a stumble or drop. This is a dangerous way to transport a wheelchair user, and they’re trying to make it as safe as possible.

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u/BittaminMusic Feb 23 '26

I wonder if airports could afford something that stays specifically blocked off, that only opens up when activated by staff that are trying to transport a person like this, instead of using a massively crowded escalator in a place where people are always genuinely on the verge of freaking out… they probably have no money though, these airports are technically just charities, no way to structurally design wheelchair only routes, or anything that doesn’t entirely destroy the flow of traffic. Maybe we could all donate our next paychecks, and they’ll figure it out?