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lostlogin • today at 10:24 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

According to the video from clan, speeding up escalators above about .75m/s results people leaving gaps between each other, so the speed increase is negated by a volume decrease.


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Barbing • today at 10:47 PM

Thanks. Wonder if the gaps (and speed) increase satisfaction and/or even save transmission of a couple communicable diseases here and there.