Making an escalator out of 2×4’s and other lumber bits looks fairly easy when condensed down to a two and a half minute video. In reality a job like this requires lots of cuts, holes ...

Hot squirted plastic not your thing? We’ve previously seen a wooden escalator designed to keep a Slinky in motion for as long as it takes for you to realize you could be using your skills for ...

Fuelled by a build-up of grease and dust inside the wooden escalator, the fire spread until smoke began to spew from under the steps and out into the main concourse. It was at about this point ...

Ah, New York City! The city that never sleeps, where dreams are made, and every corner holds a secret waiting to be uncovered ...

Expect more potential closures at Wood Street in the coming months as the escalators will not be fully installed until March 2024. Starting Friday night more service will be disrupted downtown for ...

Thirty-one people died and 100 others were injured after a match was dropped through a wooden escalator. Unveiling the red plaque on the 34th anniversary of the tragedy, the Fire Brigades Union ...

Beginning on December 8, Wood Street Station will close as PRT will begin replacing all four escalators as part of an ongoing light rail construction project. The closure begins at the start of ...

Two broken escalators at Columbus Circle have been causing chaos, and commuters have had enough. The MTA estimates almost 48,000 people use the station each weekday. Since the start of the summer ...

MIAMI - Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava expects repairs to broken elevators and escalators around Metrorail and Metromover platforms to speed up. "The parts are starting to come in ...

After he suffered a cerebral stroke in his early 40s, company employee Masahiro Kawase realized how difficult it is to adhere to "escalator etiquette" in Tokyo. Kawase, 49, a company employee in ...

Relationship researcher and journalist Amy Gahran popularized a term for the mindless momentum that pushes many couples toward marriage: The relationship escalator. The relationship escalator ...

The relationship escalator, a term coined by Amy Gahran, is all about the societal expectations and steps that romantic relationships are often expected to follow. It's a metaphor that says that ...