People ride an escalator to exit the Metro transit system in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) This article is more than 8 years old. Are we using escalators most efficiently ...

Stores, stations and airports are often equipped with escalators or moving walkways to help people get where they need to be—whether that be between floors, out of the dungeon depths of the C… ...

Is there a more frustrating first world problem, pray tell, than being stopped in your tracks as you try and hotfoot it up the right side of an escalator in peak hour?

We use it all the time but most people have never actually seen the inner workings of an escalator! I've animated the inside to give you a detailed look at the steps, step chain, gears, handrail, and ...

But the joke's on me, I guess, because according to new research revealed by The Guardian, we've been using escalators wrong this whole time.

It turns out we might all have been using escalators wrong. One of the oldest rules of transit etiquette – if you don’t want to walk on the escalator, don’t block those trying to get by ...