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 ...

Fred Jung was at the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford when he saw it. An escalator, heading ... nowhere. Jung was recently on the third floor of the mall near the food court when he spied ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed an energy-recycling mechanical staircase they hope will one day help older adults or those who are mobility-impaired. The device uses little power and can be placed on ...

“We’re on a road to nowhere/ Come on inside. Taking that ride to nowhere/ We’ll take that ride.” — Talking Heads, 1985 Fred Jung was at the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford when he saw it.

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 ...