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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maria Hernandez had no choice but to climb the 49 steps at a Metromover station where the elevator has been down for a month and the escalator has not worked since last fall. “It’s so inconvenient,” ...

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 given up on its failure-prone escalators at University of Washington Station next to Husky Stadium, and says they’ll be replaced soon by a combination of stairs and stronger ...

The Metro Board of Directors refused an idea to replace escalators in the system with staircases. The proposed $14 million conversion would take 23 “redundant” escalators that were 30 feet or shorter ...

Can be used on existing staircases for the mobility-impaired Can be used on existing staircases for the mobility-impaired Researchers have developed an energy-recycling mechanical staircase they hope ...

Source: "Escalator and Stairs." Image by Karen Mardahl, Wikimedia, CC2.0 The Question “What if life came with little reminders to make healthy choices?” This intriguing question headlined an article ...

The stairs in Sega’s Yakuza-spinoff, Judgment, are phenomenal. The game was released stateside over three years ago, but thanks to a special Twitter account that highlights stairs in video games, the ...