America, is this the best you can do?

new_2_nj

Mar 12, 2015 at 12:58am Edited

Why can't the escalator be used as a staircase until the needed parts arrive? Fine - it doesn't move, but it's still stairs.

case

Mar 12, 2015 at 2:14am

Woot said:
ligeti said:
“It’s taken time to disassemble the mechanism, clean the assembly and order parts,” the spokesman said.

It sounds like he's describing the slide projector at a middle school science department. This is the busiest transit stairwell IN THE WORLD. Two and a half months. What an embarrassment.

The Europeans are laughing at us.

Shame on America.

Europeans are not laughing at Americans. In Paris, that escalator might be a staircase. There is nothing efficient about a French workforce.

I would say that Europeans would laugh at someone so incensed about an escalator being out of service, honestly. "Why don't you take the stairs" or, perhaps, "Why do you not take ze stairs" would be a more common reaction.

I mean, I've only been to Europe a handful of times (unlike Ligeti, who apparently goes once a month to do surveys) but I'd have to think that Europeans would be scornful of fat, lazy Americans as opposed to being focused on their escalator situation.

Then again, Europeans do have a strong sense of respect for their elderly... so perhaps they'd be more sympathetic about this thread.

KarenMarlowe

Mar 12, 2015 at 2:32am

dk50b said:
As for Port Authority Bus Terminal, which John Oliver recently termed the "single worst place on earth", shockingly it turns out Christie is to blame for the needed replacement being nowhere in the PA's capital plan. Act One was stealing $3 billion in capital funds for a non-PA project, the Pulaski Skyway Rehab. Act Two was rewarding United Airlines for their new AC service by pushing the completely unnecessary Newark Airport PATH Extension to the top of the list.

http://gothamist.com/2014/08/04/video_john_oliver_declares_port_aut.php

Hilarious!

ridski

Mar 12, 2015 at 3:40am

case said:
Woot said:
ligeti said:
“It’s taken time to disassemble the mechanism, clean the assembly and order parts,” the spokesman said.

It sounds like he's describing the slide projector at a middle school science department. This is the busiest transit stairwell IN THE WORLD. Two and a half months. What an embarrassment.

The Europeans are laughing at us.

Shame on America.

Europeans are not laughing at Americans. In Paris, that escalator might be a staircase. There is nothing efficient about a French workforce.

I would say that Europeans would laugh at someone so incensed about an escalator being out of service, honestly. "Why don't you take the stairs" or, perhaps, "Why do you not take ze stairs" would be a more common reaction.

I mean, I've only been to Europe a handful of times (unlike Ligeti, who apparently goes once a month to do surveys) but I'd have to think that Europeans would be scornful of fat, lazy Americans as opposed to being focused on their escalator situation.

Then again, Europeans do have a strong sense of respect for their elderly... so perhaps they'd be more sympathetic about this thread.

Center escalator down to lower level.

scott_clark

Mar 12, 2015 at 4:15am

If you think the PA Bus Terminal is awful now, you probably weren't around in the 80s.

KarenMarlowe

Mar 12, 2015 at 4:31am

scott_clark said:
If you think the PA Bus Terminal is awful now, you probably weren't around in the 80s.

I was! I commuted through there one summer. I don't think I've been there since.

ligeti said:
Penn Station -- possibly the busiest, most important transit hub in the world. The main escalator to Seventh Ave. has been out of order for over a month. I've read reports suggesting that they are not quite sure how to fix it.

I am speculating that the escalator operations people probably think we'll get used to it and eventually we'll stop talking about it.

And we're going to take down ISIS. Right.

When you say "we"... who are you referring to, exactly?