Talk:Escalator

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I propose that Moving sidewalk be merged in: see talk:Moving sidewalk. Blotwell 05:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

See my (positive) comments there.

Atlant 11:24, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

-There really should be a date given for the opening of the high speed walkways on the Paris Metro.

-wgw2024 Dec 4 2005

[edit] Factual Error in Page

The article titled "Escalator" contains a direct contradiction between two "facts."

A section near the end, headed "Longest Escalators and Systems," includes the following three paragraphs (on which please see my comments below):

''' The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere is at the Wheaton station of the Washington Metro subway system. It is 155 m (508ft) long, and takes almost 3 and a half minutes to ascend or descend without walking. It replaced what was formerly the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere, which is also located on the Washington Metro system at the Bethesda station.

The longest escalator on earth is a four-section outdoor escalator at Ocean Park, Hong Kong, with an overall length of 224 m (745ft).

However, the metro systems in several cities in Eastern Europe (including St. Petersburg, Kyiv and Prague) have Soviet-era escalators up to approximately 100 m (330ft) long. Those at the Námìstí Míru station in Prague were rebuilt to the same length in 1998–9 by ThyssenKrupp. The longest in the world are at Park Pobedy station on the Moscow Metro. Opened in 2003, these escalators have 740 steps each, and are over 120 metres long, making them the longest single-section escalators on earth.'''

Please note that the Moscow Metro escalators, at "over 120 metres long" CAN'T BE "the longest single-section escalators on earth" if, in fact, the escalator at the Washington Metro's Wheaton station is "155 m (508 ft) long." (The Wheaton escalator, I should note, is also a single-section unit.)

Either one or both of the numbers, or the claim of "longest," must be wrong.

A smaller and pickier point: What's the reason for the "However" that opens the last graf? I see no "however" about that information; it should simply start, "The metro systems in several cities..."

Dannheisser 07:03, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Placed where it is, it sounds like some was weasel-wording the apparent conflict that you've detected.

Atlant 13:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

"The Wheaton station, a mile down the street, has 230-foot escalators, the longest outside of Leningrad." From the article "Wheaton, Forest Glen To Climb Aboard Metro", September 16, 1990, Washington Post. Other Washington Metro escalator lengths taken from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/07/31/DI2006073100845.html. Tjamro 18:37, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Difference?

The article doesn't make it clear that there's any difference between Inclined moving sidewalks and Travelators. Why should they be kept seperate? Is there a difference? Alvis 06:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)