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.

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[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.