Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : The World's Longest Escalator!

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Kostik said:

Hey, you should visit Moscow & St.-Petersburg, you'll wonder even more :-)

# June 2, 2006 10:38 AM

Vorn said:

Doesn't seem all that long.

But then, I ride the escalator from the 6 to the E at 57th street in NYC rather a lot. I don't know how long that one is, but it's pretty nutso.

Vorn

# June 2, 2006 10:41 AM

InTheTrenches said:

The CNN building in Atlanta supposedly has the world's longest freestanding escalator. It’s a good way to start the CNN tour, but not for the squeamish.

# June 2, 2006 11:15 AM

I used to work in the building kitty-corner to the Angel tube. When that new station entrance first opened they had all kinds of trouble getting those escalators to work when fully loaded with people. It was great exercise walking up a stopped one!

I hope you enjoyed London.

# June 2, 2006 11:38 AM

Serge Wautier said:

> Yes, I know the title of the post is misleading

Nah, not that much: We don't expect anything truly interesting in the colonies, do we ?

;-D

# June 2, 2006 11:39 AM

Dave Solimini said:

The longest uninterupted escalator in the world is in the Washington, DC metro system, at the Wheaton station. In fact, 4 of the 5 longest in the Western Hemisphere are in the DC system -- Bethesda, Woodley Park/Zoo, and Medical Center being the other ones.

DC's metro is dug very deep because the land is swampy -- the city's basically built on a tidal marsh. Stairs would be too much, so they have these huge escalators everywhere, and of course, they're a maintenance nightmare and break all the time.

ds

# June 2, 2006 12:24 PM

aleske said:

+1 about Moscow and especially St.-Petersburg. There are escalators much, much longer...

# June 2, 2006 1:47 PM

Sergey said:

Visit Moscow - 3-4 minutes video guaranteed! :)

# June 2, 2006 1:51 PM

Nikhil said:

Jensen, u came to london and u didn't tell us!! We coulda have shown you an even better time than Angel tube station!!

# June 2, 2006 2:46 PM

David said:

If you are going down, isn't it called a Downscalator or something? :-)

# June 2, 2006 2:54 PM

Abigail said:

I agree, Moscow/St. Petersburg have the longest escalators I've been on. And they're *fast*, too. When I came back to the US, I was impatient with the dinky escalators I could run faster than they could take me (not always true in the former).

Jensen, I have your RSS feed in my Outlook Beta 2. This entry has been marked new three times today already. Have you been editing it?

# June 2, 2006 3:56 PM

Tom said:

Do you know what's really sad? The next time I'm bored after work, I'm now going to visit the escalator.

Oh, and none of them compare to this! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central-Mid-Levels_escalator

# June 2, 2006 4:11 PM

Andrew Eberhard said:

Tell me you notice all those MS advertisements as you descended. As recently as a month ago, there were adds for Office 2003 [sic] and Windows Mobile all over the tube telescreens. The man/dinosaur one was particularly disturbing at 11:45PM.

# June 2, 2006 11:53 PM

Comrade Ghorkov said:

Aparently the escalator at some ocean-themed theme-park in Hong Kong is the world's longest escalator, but it is interrupted every few hundred feet or so.

I went there once in 1998, IIRC it took 10 minutes to reach the summit

# June 3, 2006 5:52 PM

Mike Staunton said:

As a London resident and frequent user of Angel station, I'm currently visiting Hong Kong and looking forward to riding on their linked series of elevators linking central with the mid-levels and totalling 800 metres in length I think

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