NR video on escalator use

[HowardGWR]

Very pleased to see the advice, when the escalator might not be sensible to take, to take the lift and not those things used to lift bales onto trailers.

Hologram people please note.

 

[yorkie]

What video is this?

The hologram people won't take note, as we had a thread about it, in which they joined in and they basically didn't listen to us.

What was their excuse again? King's Cross station is mostly used by Americans who don't understand anything other than elevator, or something like that.

 

[Cherry_Picker]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/video-network-rail-releases-embarrassing-6402322

It's a few people falling over at New Street station. It's fairly light hearted.

 

[dvboy]

Doesn't surprise me. These are all on the old escalators but the new escalators at New Street are awful, keep breaking down.

 

[Starmill]

... Americans who don't understand anything other than elevator, or something like that.

I've no idea what the posts you are referring to said, but picking this point up in isolation, I've always thought this to be true.

For example, when Americans come here talking about candy, elevators, parking lots and drugstores - we understand them pretty well. Would the reverse be true if we were talking about sweets, lifts, car parks and chemists?

Not that this is anything close to a justification for that annoying as hell hologram mind!

 

[HowardGWR]

I've no idea what the posts you are referring to said, but picking this point up in isolation, I've always thought this to be true.

For example, when Americans come here talking about candy, elevators, parking lots and drugstores - we understand them pretty well. Would the reverse be true if we were talking about sweets, lifts, car parks and chemists?

Not that this is anything close to a justification for that annoying as hell hologram mind!

If it were so that they could not understand, then how do they get on in Paris or Amsterdam or Berlin? Mind you, when I stayed in a hotel on Syntagma Square in Athens, an American friend of ours ordered a taxi to take him to Plaka, which was a few hundred yards away. He told us he was scared he would get lost and thought us to be very brave. Some Americans (not all) are very isolated, culturally, from the rest of the world.

Our Hologram promotion man who corresponded with us had Chinese and others in mind whom he thought would only understand American English. I still think its disgraceful that we bow to such pressures and apparently have so little pride in our own traditions. Besides that, it's the joy of travel for our visitors to make these discoveries.

 

[eMeS]

I find it unnerving when the escalator hand-rail does a jump in speed/relative position compared to what my feet are travelling on, and I've noticed this in posh shops (e.g. John Lewis) where I've been the only user - previously I thought it was the mechanism responding to an extra traveller's weight. Clearly not. The other feature I hate is "cogging" where the motion is anything but smooth.

 

[alwaystouchout]

Absolutely hate using escalators in the first place, always prefer to take the lift or walk the stairs.

 

[asylumxl]

So, I felt the need to add the music I immediately thought of upon seeing the video.



Click me!

 

[causton]

So, I felt the need to add the music I immediately thought of upon seeing the video.



Click me!

Didn't even need to click it as I knew what music it would be

 

[Scotty]

Didn't even need to click it as I knew what music it would be

Me too!

 

[asylumxl]

Me too!

That's why i felt someone had to do it!

 

[Lockwood]

I'm going to hazard a guess, then listen to it sneakily whilst I'm here in the office.

Yep. Thought so. Well played.