What is the best escalator in the world and for what reason?
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Me too. Bethesda Metro.
I saw on TV recently Mike Bloomberg has a curved escalator in his office building. I’m pretty sure he said they can be found in Asia too. I don’t know if he has the only one in America?
@JLeslie There are curved escalators in the Westfield Mall on Market Street in San Francisco.
I’d never heard of curved escalators until now. I just found some online photos. The escalators have a graceful look and can be arranged in some interesting configurations.
@janbb @JLeslie The first time I stood at the bottom of the Bethesda escalators and looked up, I literally had a breathless moment. As I mentioned, above, photographs really can’t cause the same reaction.
^^Funny, I used to get on and off at Bethesda once in a while, and the escalators were tall, obviously, but I didn’t know until years later that it broke records. I grew up in the metro D.C. area.
But are there other factors that make some escalators better than others? Is the length and the width (and maybe speed? I don’t know) the only variables?
@flo What other factors could you think of?
I’m looking for the unique or the rarest kind of escalator in the world.
Last time I was in Macy’s Herald Square some of the escalators were still the old ones with wooden slats. They might have changed them all out now, I don’t know.
Edit: I just found this regarding the wooden escalators.
Thanks all. Which is the most technologically avanced ( maybe that would have been the better term in my OP) in the world?
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