Bostonist: Mind Your MBTA Manners: Escalator Etiquette

drchavas

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:11:43 -0500

Don't be an escaleftor!

bstrd

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:27 -0500

...and why Why WHY do people walking up the escalator suddenly STOP two steps from the top??? My solution? Plow them down. Anyone in the middle of the escalator? Not-so-gently shove them aside. It only took living here two years to make me a hostile Bostonian. The MBTA will do that to people.

Sean

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:48:59 -0500

This is one of my major commuting pet peeves. My other: I work nights in Cambridge and take the T from Stoughton. Since I am always going the opposite direction as the crowds I find no matter where I try to walk there is a crowd 20 people wide that refuse to yield to the 10 of us travelling in a single file line on the extreme right of the walkway, train platform, what have you. It makes me mad everyday to the point I just start slamming right into people as I walk by in my (hopefully) 1 foot wide path...

Victoria Welch

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:04:10 -0500

THANK YOU. In DC, people will yell at you or (not-so) gently nudge you if you break this rule. I'm always struck by the number of Bostonians who need this reminder. It drives me crazy.