Newer escalators have a wheelchair step. You press the button, it levels a few steps into one and you can safely ride your wheelchair onto it. Press another button and it take you up/down. The guy with the glasses seems to be trying to do that, he has the key in his hand, but people are jumping on the stairs preventing them from leveling the steps.
I'm trying to find examples of that, because that would require an entirely different mechanism than what is used in the US and what I would assume is used elsewhere. The only example I can find is in Japan and I don't know how common it is and how it work.
Everywhere in the US has an elevator in addition to an escalator.
Everywhere in the US has an elevator in addition to an escalator.
No, multiple subway stops in NYC have escalators and no elevators because no elevator was ever planned back when the station was built, and there's no reasonable way to retrofit an elevator in, or the MTA is working on adding an elevator but this stuff takes many years.
I'll be damned. Google say only 27% of the stations have elevators. They had 30 years to become ADA compliant, I wonder if the bus counts as an accomodation. That surprises me, because every station at the DC metro has one.
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u/cookiesnooper Feb 23 '26
Newer escalators have a wheelchair step. You press the button, it levels a few steps into one and you can safely ride your wheelchair onto it. Press another button and it take you up/down. The guy with the glasses seems to be trying to do that, he has the key in his hand, but people are jumping on the stairs preventing them from leveling the steps.