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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2008 8:56:36 GMT
I nearly ended up lying across several people this morning thanks to a dawdler - someone who moved excessively slowly once through the doors.
There were several seats clear and by the time I could get to one, the train started to move - fairly suddenly, but that was expected. I was in the kind of position that made it very likely that I would suddenly move towards the rear of the train - more by luck than by anything else, I managed to keep off other customers and get into the seat, but could have done so much more easily without the dawdler.
Does this annoy anyone else or is it just me?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2008 18:29:03 GMT
Dawdlers at the top & bottom of escalators are the biggest causes of trips and falls on a station. Ban 'em I say
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Post by stanmorek on Jul 2, 2008 19:40:43 GMT
Dawdlers at the top & bottom of escalators are the biggest causes of trips and falls on a station. Ban 'em I say Followed by trolley cases/bags. They have the potential to cause carnage. One tumbled down the escalators at Kings Cross and landed on top of me one early morning. Thankfully no injuries sustained but it did wake me up for the day. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2008 0:03:13 GMT
Two things that really annoy me are people who stand on the left on escalators and people who wait until they are next in turn to go through the ticket gates before thinking about finding their ticket!
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Post by edwin on Jul 3, 2008 0:05:47 GMT
The thing that annoys me most is people not planning their route before getting off the train, particularly when it's crowded, meaning that everyone behind them gets stuck whilst they realise whether they have to go left or right!
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Post by trc666 on Jul 3, 2008 0:49:52 GMT
One of my pet hates is couples who decide that the top of an escalator or right in the doorway of a train is the best place to stop and have a snog during rush hour.
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Post by SE13 on Jul 3, 2008 6:51:09 GMT
It's the ones at the foot of the escalators looking at their maps, or working out which direction to go who drive me nuts!
While I am aware that at multi-line stations, it might be a bit difficult to work out which line/direction to head for, standing blocking the foot of the escalators is not the place to be working it out!
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 3, 2008 7:52:20 GMT
Indeed. I read in a railway mag (so it must be true...) that trolley bags cause a 1/3cut in capacity on Escalators
Another pet peeve are the people that sort of stand to the right but don't. I don't mind shoving past them, but if one was smaller/less grumpy you'd be blocked.
As for people stopping at the bottom, one way around this would be to move the maps - Central line seems to be the worse for that - there's always a collection of people blokcing the stairwells where it feeds onto the platforms of people not being able to work out which platform. Might help on platforms with entrances at the end, too. Give them an incentive to move from the blockage points
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2008 8:09:16 GMT
David and I use a trolley case when we go away - even when that involves the Underground. I was carrying two bags down the Northern Line escalator one Sunday recently (we'd just come back from Edinburgh) when the person ahead of me didn't pay attention to the end of the escalator and nearly caused me to pile into him - I was lucky there was a small escape route. David was a short distance behind with the trolley case and another bag - all was clear by the time he got to the bottom.
Blocking up an escalator for no good reason is another bad thing. If you must stand on the left for some reason, at least choose a quiet moment and let people know. Stopping in the area immediately at the landing is particularly annoying - perhaps marking the areas and announcing "no stopping in the box at the end of an escalator" might help, but you can bet the worst offenders are the non-listeners.
But above all, the worst has got to be people hanging around the open (or unlocked, in the case of NR and DLR) doors of a train they have no intention of boarding, when you have!
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Post by compsci on Jul 3, 2008 8:39:16 GMT
St Pancras FCC has a particular problem with escalators being blocked, mostly by people who are taking their fridge freezer on holiday with them. It doesn't help that there are no signs telling people to keep to the right, so you can't even point and shout. When I pointed this out to the management, they paniced and promised to rectify it as soon as possible.
There were quite a few people blocking the left hand side of the escalator at Old Street last night, but they quickly dived out of the way when I came flying down it.
The biggest safety hazard of all appears to be vast groups of foreign students. They seem incapable of moving more than two feet from the entrance to a platform, and because there are so many of them it is almost impossible to get around them to the vast swathes of entirely empty platform beyond. Seemingly nothing that staff can do or threaten can make them understand the error of their ways either.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2008 8:54:06 GMT
And people that walk three or four abreast down a platform so you can't get past. Gah! Or who suddenly stop. With no warning.
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Post by ducatisti on Jul 3, 2008 9:01:22 GMT
The only thing to do with foreign students is to politely, but firmly, walk though them...
I find a bag quite handy for getting past the ones who walk abreast as you can get it in their peripheral vision. Ditto for the veerers (why walk parallel to the platform/corridor when you can zig-zag accross it?)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2008 15:26:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2008 16:54:47 GMT
Or, they walk through the gates, and stop, so you can't get past... they have a chat with their friends...
And to those who stand opposite a friend on the escy... I find a well toned STAND ON THE RIGHT, bellowed from about 6ft away normally helps... After two rounds of bellowing, it finally penetrates... a sarcastic thank YOU, as I walk past is also offered.
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Post by Phil on Jul 4, 2008 20:19:49 GMT
It's a shame that full-length brollies are out of fashion. I never had ANY trouble moving around LU in the peak. Brolly is held firmly (downwards!) handle at waist-height, with tip 6" off the ground and at 45o across the legs, tip about 8" from feet. Walk briskly and 95% of people move out of the way instantly. As to the other 5% - well they wish they had!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2008 23:57:31 GMT
What's stopping you restarting the fashion? Especially since you could point out the added benefits as a path-clearer... I'm sure it'd take off in no time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2008 6:35:23 GMT
Earl's Court during the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show is a nightmare - full of clueless dawdling Daily Mail readers who wonder aimlessly around the station with their super mops, with total lack of understanding of how maps work (or even the concept of Eastbound and Westbound!).
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Post by northernlinedriver on Jul 5, 2008 8:50:05 GMT
People reading a book as they are going up the escalator really annoy me. They get to the top, still engrossed in the book, then wonder why six people behind pile into them....
Saw a bloke on the stations do it once - wearing open toed sandals. It wasn't pretty.....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2008 11:41:47 GMT
St Pancras FCC has a particular problem with escalators being blocked, I think it's bigger problem is having one of the most overcomplicated platform arrangements I've ever seen. Platform A zones 2&3, eh? Travelcard zone? Oh the signs on the wall. What? It's like they've deliberately made it more baffling than it needs, just because they don't want to be platform 5 and 6. |
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