Important Penn Station update

There is an escalator in the London Underground, at Covent Garden station if I'm not mistaken, that carries people up and down from so far under the street level that I'm sitting here going pale at the thought of what it would be like if THAT escalator was broken down as often as the ones in NYC.

ridski said:

My mum's local tube station carries this alert. "KENTISH TOWN: No down escalator to the Northern line from Monday 20 April until late May. Due to planned maintenance, access to the Northern line will only be via 121 spiral stairs. You may find it easier to use local buses to nearby Chalk Farm or Tufnell Park stations or use King's Cross St. Pancras to change from National Rail services to the Northern line." 

Clearly we're exporting our escalator problems.

PeggyC said:

There is an escalator in the London Underground, at Covent Garden station if I'm not mistaken, that carries people up and down from so far under the street level that I'm sitting here going pale at the thought of what it would be like if THAT escalator was broken down as often as the ones in NYC.

 The 181st St station on the A train is one of the deepest in the system (by virtue being right across the street from the highest part of Manhattan).  The 181st street section is fed by 3 escalators, and occasionally they all would be broken.  Getting out of that end (which is the end where my son's daycare was) when those were all down was great fun!

1.  Went to the moon.

2. Invented the internet.

3. Bombed and conquered Iraq.

4. Don't know how to fix escalators.

qrysdonnell said:

PeggyC said:

There is an escalator in the London Underground, at Covent Garden station if I'm not mistaken, that carries people up and down from so far under the street level that I'm sitting here going pale at the thought of what it would be like if THAT escalator was broken down as often as the ones in NYC.

 The 181st St station on the A train is one of the deepest in the system (by virtue being right across the street from the highest part of Manhattan).  The 181st street section is fed by 3 escalators, and occasionally they all would be broken.  Getting out of that end (which is the end where my son's daycare was) when those were all down was great fun!

 I remember an E train station that was very deep but can't recall the street... it was Lexington and maybe 63rd? Anyway, the one in London seemed to be about three times that depth. I haven't been to the 181st St station in so long I have no memory of it.

1. Moon landing was a hoax;
2. Internet is a drug;
3. I guess;
4. This is the humanity I know and love.

Ligeti, did you read the post from the WSJ?  It's not such an easy fix.  Add to that that we don't want to pay for mass transit, or even pay to maintain what we have.  We are starting to get what we deserve.  

ligeti said:

1.  Went to the moon.

2. Invented the internet.

3. Bombed and conquered Iraq.

4. Don't know how to fix escalators.

 I'm OK living in the Stone Age as long as we can bomb other people into a similar state.

FilmCarp said:

Ligeti, did you read the post from the WSJ?  It's not such an easy fix.  Add to that that we don't want to pay for mass transit, or even pay to maintain what we have.  We are starting to get what we deserve.  

 Then we should fly some Europeans over to help us.

DC Metro stations in Virginia have some incredibly steep and long escalators.  I am petrified of heights, and when I use these I break out in a sweat and can barely breath.  If I had to use these every day I would quit my job.

And how would you pay these Europeans, who are somehow miracle workers, when you won't pay for enough workers here?  Or are you trying to say the repair crews here are incompetent, despite having read the article that offered a pretty good explanation as to why those escalators are difficult to maintain or replace?  Or do you expect the Germans to pay the Europeans, since they are paying for most of the European economy now anyway.

Ligeti: "Europe is wonderful. The U.S. sucks." This applies in all circumstances where things fall short of his/her expectations.

I wonder which Ligeti is the man-hater?