This is the escalator scene at the Austin Convention Center during SEPG 2007, everyone standing on the left.
I never realized how fierce we maintain a stand-to-the-right rule on Metrorail, or how much I enjoy the ability to tackle stairs at my own frantic pace, until this sight confronted me every day this week.
The first day I would barge past folks without even an “excuse me” but by today I just wait for the moving stairs to take me to the next floor.
I have learned that this is not DC, and these flyovers are not getting out of my way no matter how much I bitch on the up or the down escalator.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
