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Roland Perry · November 29th 15, 10:54 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 11:23:17 on
Sun, 29 Nov 2015, remarked:

I really doubt the capacity arguments: it may be true that you get more
people on the standing side than on the walking side as walking needs a
bit more inter-person space, but on the other hand the number of people
per second is greater. I wonder if they have really done any
measurements?

It would be trivial to measu just stand at the top of one of the
escalators that has for the duration of the experiment people standing
on one side and walking up the other, and count how many people step off
the top on each side in a fixed period of time. A minute would be plenty
long enough.

Could the result vary with the demographic of the users and the time
and location.

Of course. I'm going to suggest that the time and location we
concentrate on is "Holborn in the rush hours".

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Roland Perry