When the escalators at the University of Washington light rail station go down there’s only one solution. Make everyone stand in line and wait for the elevator. RELATED: Seattle tunnel may open in ...

Fred Jung was at the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford when he saw it. An escalator, heading ... nowhere. Jung was recently on the third floor of the mall near the food court when he spied ...

Many people notice that escalator handrails often move slightly faster than the steps. This isn’t intentional, but a result ...

“We’re on a road to nowhere/ Come on inside. Taking that ride to nowhere/ We’ll take that ride.” — Talking Heads, 1985 Fred Jung was at the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford when he saw it.

For most of last year, passengers hurrying to catch their flights at the Grand Junction Regional Airport skipped the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Signs advertising the health benefits of stair-climbing might get more people to forgo that easy ride up the escalator, a study suggests. Sign up here. British researchers ...

Sound Transit has come around to the idea that in dire circumstances, it’s OK to use a stalled escalator as stairs. But that’s only when no other escalators or staircases are available. And those ...

The average time between failures has shrunk, meaning escalators broke down more frequently in 2010 than either of the two prior years, according to the report. Escalators lasted an average of about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ll always remember where I was on the day an escalator at the United Nations stalled, forcing my big, strong, perfect-health ...

Mitch Hedberg's excellent and hilarious routine about what happens when escalators break down aside, there is a certain strangeness and discomfort I encounter in those exact situations. It happened to ...