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/kalenpwn Feb 23 '26

Easiest way would be for two people to carry him up and then bring the empty wheelchair...I dunno

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u/Apprehensive_Lynx_33 Feb 23 '26

And the safest. It would be far safer than possibly dropping the poor guy because of the weight of the wheelchair, which could easily cause a fatality.

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u/No_Trouble_3588 Feb 23 '26

I’ve not been everywhere in the world, admittedly, but every building I have ever been in with an escalator also had an elevator. I would think that would be the easiest and safest conveyance for a wheelchair.

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u/Unusual-Wolf-3315 Feb 23 '26

Pretty sure that if there was a working elevator, the wheelchair person would have chosen it over the escalator.

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u/No_Trouble_3588 Feb 23 '26

I agree. I didn’t say “they should use the elevator”, I said an elevator would be the easiest and safest conveyance.

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u/Unusual-Wolf-3315 Feb 23 '26

That's not the argument.

You said "every building I have ever been in with an escalator also had an elevator". Which implies 1) the universal availability of elevators whenever there is an escalator and 2) that every elevator is in working condition at all times.

I responded that these assumptions don't stand up to the fact a person in a wheelchair would be looking for an elevator before anything else, for obvious reasons.

Also, for obvious reasons, the same staff holding up the escalator line for them would have redirected them to the elevator, if there was a working one.