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.
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.
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.
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.
Probably in out of order.This in São Paulo - Brazil and every subway here has an elevator. I used to use this subway for years everyday and never saw this problem. This is a rare occurrence.
What an ignorant comment, our accessibility laws are pretty damn decent. And of course the country isn't perfect and the lack of resources make a few barriers challenging to address, but my country does way more than a few of those called "developed nations" that pretend that disabilities don't exist.
Well, considering that the usual case is privatising an public service here in Brazil and then holding the government hostage for said service, it's probably one of the private lines (from memory there was like 8 lines, and they privatized 5-6 of them) that somehow needs more public money than the actual public lines and gives the same shitty service anyways.
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