Re: Wheaton Metro Escalator; 2nd Longest Anywhere?

["bemw" <queries@bigpond.com>]

You have too much time on your hands..................

"William Pearce" <ben_issacs@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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>     Re escalator lengths.
>   If anyone has a stopwatch and a bit of spare time, it is possible to
> calculate escalator slope lengths and speeds. All escalator steps are
600mm
> (0.6m) long. Firstly observe the escalator and count the number of steps
> going past in say one minute, from this one can calculate the speed.
> Secondly, step onto the same escalator and time how long it takes from top
> to bottom or v.v. With this time and the previously worked out speed in
> metres per minute or whatever, the escalator length can be worked out, and
> as all escalators run at an angle of 30 deg. to the horizontal, the
vertical
> height covered is half of the calculated length.
>   Of course, by this time one would have probably been arrested by a
> security  person!
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill.
>
> "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> > I read years ago that the escalators at the southern end of Parliament
> > station between the concourse and platforms 1&2 are (or were) the
longest
> in
> > the southern hemisphere. Sorry, can't tell you *how* long they are, but
> > maybe someone will know.
> >
> >
> > Daniel
> > --
> > Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> > dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
> > http://www.custard.net.au/bowen/daniel/
> >
> >
> > "Michael Malak" <malak@claygency.com> wrote in message
> > news:sz6%5.69324$4K4.11073088@typhoon.southeast.rr.com...
> > > "Scott M. Kozel" <kozelsm@mediaone.net> wrote in message
> > news:3A3CD396.CDCAD0BE@mediaone.net...
> > > > - Longest escalator in the western hemisphere,
> > > >   230 ft/70 m - Wheaton station
> > >
> > > According to this web site, that's incorrect as of 1998:
> > > http://www.nycsubway.org/us/washdc/red.html
> > >
> > > Also, I gave heights rather than lengths.  Escalators are generally
> twice
> > > as long as they are high.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michael Malak
> > > malak@claygency.com
> > >
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