If you are designing a building and need to move many people up or down, you probably will at least consider an escalator. In fact, if you visit most large airports these days, they even use a similar ...

Occasionally, I find myself in a two-story shopping establishment and I wonder if it’s just easier to try to scale the down escalator instead of walking a hundred or so feet to the up escalator. This ...

When President Trump arrived at the United Nations this week to address the General Assembly, his entrance didn’t go as planned. A video widely shared on social media shows Trump and first lady ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was leaving an underground transit station and making my way to the escalator to go up to the street when I noticed a tall young man gaining rapidly on me from behind. We have an ...

For most of us, a ride on an escalator is a pretty mundane activity. Then again, most of us aren't Olympic athletes.Swiss freestyle skier Fabian Bösch decided to ride a PyeongChang escalator with his ...

BOSTON - Using public transit can be a long ride in Boston, but for some passengers getting off at the Aquarium stop on the Blue Line, the hike out of the train station may be the hardest part. A key ...