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Re:The Door Close Button by mwint on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:32PM (#35158020)
If you’re in reasonably good shape, stairs are a deceptively fast mode of transport. Easy to win a race against slower elevators over smallish distances.

Also exercise benefits, but I make myself take the stairs under the guise of saving time.

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Re:The Door Close Button by eastbound on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:13PM (#35158775)
In Madrid the subway is deep, I had to climb 180 steps to home. I did it running, it’s actually much easier than walking. Best shape I ever was in my life…
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Re:The Door Close Button by masklinn on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:41PM (#35159236)
You may want to avoid that if you go to St Petersburg. Deepest station is 80m down. I’m not sure all the stations even have stairs, all I remember are endless escalators (though it dates back 25 years now so…)
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Re:The Door Close Button by waqf on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:54PM (#35159453)
Meanwhile, on the London Underground, the lengths of all sets of stairs down to platform level are described as "equivalent to 15 floors" irrespective of how high they actually are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTvmrRGlbE&t=41s
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