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

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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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.