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Re:Standing-only escalators can carry up to 30 per cent more... by SilkRoadie on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @07:13AM (#12691880)
From the foot of the elevator people walking will reach the top faster. However, navigating from the back of the queue at peak time to the start of the escalator is often time consuming.

It would be interesting what the times were between those navigating the queue and walking up vs during the trial where everyone stands but the queue to the escalator is shorter.

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Re:Standing-only escalators can carry up to 30 per cent more... by snowwolf on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:19AM (#12692147)
This. Systems Thinking teaches us that optimising a small part of the system (walking up the escalators) can have unintended consequences (bottlenecks/queues elsewhere) that result in the time through the whole system to be slower.
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Re:Standing-only escalators can carry up to 30 per cent more... by 4ad on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:29AM (#12692197)
People who stand and queue up do not block the people who want to walk. The queue leaves access for the people who are willing to walk.
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Re:Standing-only escalators can carry up to 30 per cent more... by snowwolf on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:50AM (#12692315)
Apparently you haven't been on the London Underground at rush hour. The escalator halls aren't long enough for an orderly queue to form on one side when a tube offloads its passengers.
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