Sound Transit has come around to the idea that in dire circumstances, it’s OK to use a stalled escalator as stairs. But that’s only when no other escalators or staircases are available. And those ...

Sound Transit has given up on its failure-prone escalators at University of Washington Station next to Husky Stadium, and says they’ll be replaced soon by a combination of stairs and stronger ...

If it feels to you like certain light rail escalators tend to break down often, you’re not wrong. Some escalators break so frequently, in fact, that Sound Transit is paying more than half of what it ...

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 ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: August 9th, 1859, 156 years ago today ... the day the patent for a prototype escalator, called "revolving stairs ...

The days of a problem-plagued Pennsylvania Capitol escalator are now numbered. The escalator located in the Capitol East Wing has been the butt of jokes on social media over the years for being more ...

In last Sunday’s column, I took issue with a key feature of the competition-winning design for the planned $2.2 billion Global Terminal at O’Hare International Airport: its heavy reliance on ...

Escalators that curve. Escalators that glow. Quadruple-decker, gold-plated, Tron-themed escalators. The moving staircase may have been an American invention, but it’s the Japanese who have really ...