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On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:59:13 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:40:44 on Thu, 10 Mar
2016, d remarked:
Sorry matey, but it depends who you're talking about. People who would
have
stood anyway will probably get up quicker. Those who would have walked
up
will
inevitably be delayed.
Sadly not, because they would have been delayed in the bigger queue for
the escalator.
Not as much as they'll have been delayed standing all the way up the long
escalator at Holborn.
TfL's stats would claim otherwise.
I'm sure they would, but I wouldn't believe them. The *average* speed of
everyone going up no doubt will be faster. But for those of us who arn't
bone idle lard butts it'll almost certainly be slower. Holborn is a long
escalator and there's no way the wait at the bottom can ever be long
enough
to make up for standing all the way to the top.
TfL aren't interested in how long it takes *you* to get to the top
or even how much opportunity for exercise it gives you
what they are interested in is, making sure that the crush at the bottom of
the escalator has gone by the time the next train pulls into the platform
tim
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Spud