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Escalator Etiquette

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The perennial debate about Metro riders not understanding Escalator Etiquette has been tossed around Twitter again this week, so in the spirit of cooperation and assistance, I’ve decided to do some graohic advertisements that can be used to educate riders (read: tourists) on the correct way to utilize this oft-maligned pieces of Metro equipment.

So I present to you the first in an infrequent series of pictures – which, out of deference to @Hell_On_Wheels and @FixWMATA, also shows that I don’t always add aliens and/or zombies to my art

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Riders Need Numbers Too

Metro makes quite a fuss about their numbers.

“Only 12% of our elevators and escalators are unavailable”, they cry from the media roof tops.

And gee, a reasonable person says, that doesn’t sound like much… if I got an 88% on a test that’s missing an A by only just a little bit.

So all these malcontents on the interwebs are just what… deluded?

Well. Let’s look at it – not from the repair person’s fix-it list but from a rider’s perspective:

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