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Travellers at risk from badly designed station escalators

Dave Holladay
18 August 2017
 

Network Rail has posted CCTV footage of people falling down the escalators at Leeds City station as part of a safety campaign to encourage passengers with heavy luggage to use the lifts instead. 

I use those escalators quite a few times in the year and note that most have fewer than four level moving treads before the treads start to rise or fall. Four tread thresholds are an almost universal standard on London’s Tube stations.

With a level moving threshold I can step on and align...

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