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A Potentially Brilliant Idea to Keep Escalator Obstructers to the Right
Because poor etiquette should not be the reason you miss the train.
It's one of the commuter's biggest frustrations -- getting stuck behind someone who's obstructed the entire width of an escalator.
London-based designer Yoni Alter has an elegantly simple solution. Alter used Photoshop to create mockups of his proposal, shown in the images below. (The specific escalators pictured are from a Metro station in Newcastle, England, but London Tube escalators are essentially the same.)