Commuter In A Hurry?

[eldar]

How you travel on escalators on the Tube is often an indicator of how much of a rush you're in. Most people will just stand. Some people will walk down. If you're really in a hurry (or trying to escape from gun-toting cops...), you'll run down. This guy, though, must have been seriously pressed for time...

Well, it's local. I travel (read: usually standing) down that escalator on my way home from work every day. I'm wondering where in Islington I can buy a luge.... Oh and the video's slightly wrong. It's the longest escalator in western Europe. There are longer ones on the Moscow Metro. And the Swiss are planning to build a longer one under a mountain in the Alps, apparently.

Comments

[matgb]

Jennie wants to try it on her bike; d'you think they'd let it passed security?

[eldar.livejournal.com]

Go through first thing (probably what this guy did) and nobody'd care. Or a fold-up bike in a bag. That'd work.

[deerfold.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6501897.stm

[eldar.livejournal.com]

Which is where I started from :-) It was easy enough to search for "escalator ski" on YouTube after that, even if the BBC, being the responsible souls that they are, don't link directly to the video.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

They have the video (or part of it) there on the BBC, though, which is excellent because YouTube is blocked from work. You can see that the BBC newsreader is trying not to smile.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Oh and I think I found you via juggzy, somehow. I'm no crazy stalker ;)

[eldar.livejournal.com]

Via matgb, who is a mutual friend of both I and juggzy, it looks like. I'm all for having crazy stalkers. Being male, I tend not to pick them up though.