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ember.org, at 17:02:52 on Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Recliner
remarked:
There is a little more on this in Ian Visits blog:

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015...the-escalator/


No more really, since it is mostly the 2002 paper that has already been
mentioned more than once in this thread (which doesn't actually prove
anything in my opinion).

I think what it proves is that it would be really hard to implement such a
policy in the few cases where it would be worthwhile: long up escalators in
the peaks. In all other cases, it's better to have a walking side and a
standing side.

Given that many London Tube users aren't fluent in English, most regular
Tube users are well-trained to walk on the left and stand on the right, and
many aren't listening to routine announcements, it would be nigh on
impossible to switch behaviours on a few escalators for a couple of hours
each day.

The thing about asking people not to walk on the left if that you only
need a few people to obey.

I had a look at an escalator on Monday towards the end of the rush hour
and most of the people on the "standing" side walked up the 'last' three
or four steps. So it's not a completely binary situation. As it was a
short one, people were roughly equally using both sides. Today I looked
at a few longer ones, albeit not in the rush hour, and almost everyone
was standing [on the right], and very few walking [on the left].
--
Roland Perry