Mitch Hedberg's excellent and hilarious routine about what happens when escalators break down aside, there is a certain strangeness and discomfort I encounter in those exact situations. It happened to ...

When the escalators at the University of Washington light rail station go down there’s only one solution. Make everyone stand in line and wait for the elevator. RELATED: Seattle tunnel may open in ...

SEATTLE -- Sound Transit said it will cost more than $20 million to replace the perpetually broken escalators at UW Station with eleven new escalators and two sets of stairs. Kimberly Reason, ...

Anbody who's been through the Union Square Station has probably seen the out-of-service escalator. It's operated by the management of Zeckendorf Towers, which agreed to build and maintain it in ...

Sound Transit has come around to the idea that in dire circumstances, it’s OK to use a stalled escalator as stairs. But that’s only when no other escalators or staircases are available. And those ...

The next time you ride an escalator, notice this: the handrail always seems to move faster than the stairs. It’s not broken — ...

Maybe you remember your first time, that first tentative step onto the mystically moving stairs inside the First National Bank building in downtown Grand Forks. Jim Hawley estimates the age of the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Signs advertising the health benefits of stair-climbing might get more people to forgo that easy ride up the escalator, a study suggests. Sign up here. British researchers ...

Maria Hernandez had no choice but to climb the 49 steps at a Metromover station where the elevator has been down for a month and the escalator has not worked since last fall. “It’s so inconvenient,” ...

Source: "Escalator and Stairs." Image by Karen Mardahl, Wikimedia, CC2.0 The Question “What if life came with little reminders to make healthy choices?” This intriguing question headlined an article ...

Understanding Your Fear Is the First Step Recognizing that your escalator anxiety has a name can be surprisingly comforting.