What side to walk on?

[Human]

Can we also get people to keep walking when on escalators? I am not talking about older people who may struggle.
Fit able bodied people just stop dead on the escalator. Drives me bonkers.

I don't mind this as long as the people who don't want to move, all stand to the left, so those of us who want to keep walking can overtake them.

 

[drron]

And at ZRH Iwas getting on the escalator on the right side as those not moving were on that side. I had just got on when the guy behind me kept walking. I very nearly went a over t as he hit me. If looks could kill he would not be alive today.

 

[Pushka]

Can we also get people to keep walking when on escalators? I am not talking about older people who may struggle.
Fit able bodied people just stop dead on the escalator. Drives me bonkers.

I presume you mean the flat ones at airports? Even as a young person I don't walk up the rising ones and I don't think it's safe.

 

[Forg]

I presume you mean the flat ones at airports? Even as a young person I don't walk up the rising ones and I don't think it's safe.

Whereas, as an old person, if I’m in a shopping-centre with a trolley that has the locks on the rear wheels and I encounter one of those, I lift the trolley so I can keep walking.

I think that with airports it’s a tad unrealistic to expect everyone is going to be able to keep walking, and luggage trolleys are wide enough that you can’t get past with another trolley on a travelator. Inclined ones probably lock luggage trolleys wheels too.

Back to the correct side for overtaking … I also believe we’ve talked about what the correct side to stand on escalators is, and people have posted images showing airports which have rules counter to what’s intuitive! I think it was BKK, where the road rules say the cars are Correct Hand Drive but the airport clearly had signage saying that you should stand to the right & overtake on the left. Maybe it’s because in Bangkok traffic the side they drive on is a mere suggestion …

 

[Groundfeeder]

It's the robots rapt in mobile phone in front of them, oblivious to any other human life on this particular planet.
I just stop in front of the impending collision to see if they've got their Traffic Alerts engaged.

 

[justinbrett]

I presume you mean the flat ones at airports? Even as a young person I don't walk up the rising ones and I don't think it's safe.

Only the ones that have steps are called escalators. The flat ones, whether level or sloped, are travelators or moving walkways.

I think that with airports it’s a tad unrealistic to expect everyone is going to be able to keep walking, and luggage trolleys are wide enough that you can’t get past with another trolley on a travelator. Inclined ones probably lock luggage trolleys wheels too.

All of the airports with travelators that I can recall either had a sign saying no trolleys, and/or installed bollards to prevent this.