Sound Transit may have come up with a solution to the age-old question: What do you do when an escalator breaks down and there are no stairs?

Compared to an escalator, a staircase is an inferior machine, so the “workers”—that is, the people who use the stairs—should try to minimize their time there.

Signs advertising the health benefits of stair-climbing might get more people to forgo that easy ride up the escalator, a study suggests.

SEATTLE -- Sound Transit said it will cost more than $20 million to replace the perpetually broken escalators at UW Station with eleven new escalators and two sets of stairs. Kimberly Reason ...

Meanwhile, the stalled stairs of the escalators collect dust. Last week, a deranged man screamed and ripped the out-of-service signs down and zipped past everyone plodding up the stairs.

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 ...

Metromover users are forced to walk down the stairs another day on at the Adrienne Arsht Center Station in Miami with the elevator and escalator broken. Up for weeks, the repair signs remained on ...

Once you decide to get on that escalator, you are no longer in charge of what happens. You lose control. The person in front of you has the power.

Dear Miss Manners: I was leaving an underground transit station and making my way to the escalator to go up to the street ...

A Twitter account called “climbing stairs in video gaming” highlights stairs in video games. Judgment, a spin-off of the Yakuza series, has some of the best escalator physics we’ve ever seen.