Could you stand on the left?! (lighthearted)

[lilyb84]

I'm sure it's purely psychological but I feel like I'm getting to the tube (or out of the bloody station) quicker when I walk on the left... just can't see this working after decades of ingrained habits!

metro.co.uk/2015/11/25/the-decades-old-etiquette-of-keeping-right-on-tube-station-escalators-could-soon-be-over-5525856/

I think I'd get the rage if I had to stand. But if it genuinely improves flow through the station and therefore overall journey times I guess that will make me U...

This whole thing feels like the start of an episode of Dr Who. You know, where offialdom makes an apparently 'benign' change that in fact creates a crucial tear in the fabric of society, leaving us open to alien invasion.

I would find it easier. I would naturally stand on the left, I feel more comfortable with my left hand on the escalator for some reason. I have to forcibly remind myself to go on the other side.

I'm another person now living abroad that still stands on the right, suitcase tucked in to the right on the step above. What's the most sad aspect is more often than not I'm the only person on the escalator or general vicinity.

Jassy funny you say that I did notice that the branch of New Look in Holborn has some new dummies ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auton

The reason I don't walk up and particularly down the long escalators in tube stations is because I am very clumsy and afraid I will fall or be knocked off! And I am also a nervous nelly. I like to cling to the right hand banister for dear life

Leeds station is supposed to be stand to the right, but I swear the only people who pay any attention are the ones who are catching the London train.

I frequently once ran for a train at Leeds to find the TRAIN DRIVERS standing on the left. If I hadn't been completely out of breath in a hurry I'd have told them that they should be setting a better example!

There's been signs for years at Waterloo and some other crowded stations saying "Please stand on both sides at peak times" - I guess it's the same principle as reducing speeds on motorways to 50 and banning changing lanes, to speed up overall flow.

HitsAndMrs This thread made me laugh at how different us northerners are!

I wish the general northern population wasn't that different. Despite signs on the escalators in my Major City train station which clearly state "Stand to the right", you still get people just blocking the entire width by standing all over the shop, or placing their bags on the left, or going two abreast with their mates.

However, when I come up behind such people, I am always doubly annoyed if I detect a whiff of Londoness (real word....) about them. Why do you not have the same respect for our fucking escalator system as you do your own?

Maybe we have the reputation of mildness, that these London types don't fear violence when standing on the left.

I live hundreds of miles away and this truly upsets me! Making the change to my new city was nightmarish, people standing wherever they fancy, I even came out of the subway here to find one girl just stopped at the top of the escalator! Standing there, doing nothing!

They'd put a pretty infographic poster up this morning to show you what two people both standing on an escalator on the same step would look like. Nope. Still doesn't compute. As for walking up, it must be psychosomatic. I'm reasonably fit - lots of dancing - but walking up turns my legs to jelly. I hare down though.

a real fitness fanatic, or total nutjob

They're the same thing, aren't they?

To be precise, the first is a subset of the second.

So. Day 2 of the trial. There's a really freaky hologram woman at the bottom of the big escalator waving hello manically, there are shiny new digital signs telling us to stand on both sides

and we're all ignoring it