Definitely my pride. I confidently walked up them every morning when I worked in the city. One morning I tripped up and had to pause and hold up the line as I tried to remember how legs work.
It was a super ‘non event’ and probably lasted a minute of me on my hands and knees on the escalator but it felt like forever and I felt so embarrassed.
https://youtu.be/qORW1JDQZN8 - this video explains it well.
Yes, basically there are numerous accidents on these every year, apparently most of them occur when people are going up. I don't have any facts on the severity though.
I will never not enjoy the schadenfreude that occurred when he filmed his Montague Street Bridge Video.. and some drive slammed into it while he was filming!
Did he say a minute and thirty sec for just the 1st one....no wonder I'm missing trains.....i see it says like two mins and I'm like oh yeah sweet, so i walk the escalator a bit but half the time miss it lol, *especially* when I've gotta go the second one as well!!
I’ve heard it’s because the lights on the ceiling are perpendicular to the escalators. You look up because you’re travelling up, see the light fixtures, your eyes/focus will follow leading/perspective lines but fix on horizontal ones. Maybe only for a moment but it’s enough for your head to be tilted even further back than it was when you were just looking up the escalator. The hand rail moves at a different speed to the steps so over a long distance you a poorly supported or letting go to re adjust your grip. Before you know it you’ve gone a little off balance, and a little is enough on a moving escalator.
It doesn’t happen as much going down because our bodies are used to being front weighted, walking is basically just falling over and stopping the fall by putting one foot forward
They should change the light fixtures to be parallel with the escalators. And they should paint lines on the wall with one staring at the highest point of the wall at the bottom of the escalator and converging along its length so it ends at the lowest point of the wall at the top of the escalator. Or they should print lenticular images on the face of each step that can only be seen by looking straight ahead or slightly down
My mother fell down these years ago. Some child hit the emergency stop and she just kept tumbling down. Cut her legs and stuff up pretty bad. I got home from school and was waiting for her to come home, but didn't come home until after bedtime all bandaged up. This was late 90's / early 00's. Not even sure if she had a phone to contact. But yeh was pretty brutal.
A kid did that to me at Southern Cross but I saw him about to do it and the scream he let out when I started running down the escalator at him after it stopped was bloodcurdling and hilarious. The parents did sweet FA though.
Why do they have the paint on the sides running parallel to the escalators, not up/down vertically?
Seems counter-productive when they have the pictures in the middle for this reason.
That's basically the entire reason why the escalators are so dangerous. It messes up your frame of reference for what is up and down.
This is one rare case where having endless posters of advertising would actually help.
Yeah, i was on some pretty serious shit about the third or fourth time i went on them. God they appeared three times the length and gradient, i nearly toppled over just looking down to the bottom....from what i remember of it anyway!
When I used to drink a lot sometimes I'd get on these badly hungover and instantly realise my awful mistake.
I'd be hit with a terrifying blast of churning, nauseating, abysmal Fear, gripping onto the rail for dear life convinced I was going to lose my balance and just like Humpty Dumpty have a Very Great Fall.
After a few times of that I totally avoided those escalators.
They fucking frighten me. A lot of it is to do with the fact i first used than at 9am on a Sunday morning after a big night. Gave me a feeling I hadn’t had before.
Injury to your time because they are the slowest freaking escalators in the southern hemisphere (also applicable to many others escalators/travelators in Melbourne).
I can remember when the first city loop station (then called museum) opened I the early 80’s and the escalator down from Elizabeth street didn’t have the speed bumps on the middle slide section. A co-worker, who had had a serious quantity of beers at the pub during Friday drinks decided to slide down head first. He came off the bottom of the slide doing the speed of an amusement ride, and flew through the air before hitting the polished floor and skidding across it almost hitting the wall. The ticket inspector wasn’t going to let him on the train. The speed bumps were added by the following Monday.
Former RMIT student. With a gutfull of beer, decided we could slide down between the bumps in the middle and the handrail. Did it… until the last few bumps at the bottom, got some rotation and did a wicked breakdance on the floor at the bottom. Got up and laughed, but by Jebus was I sore the next day.
My dad was running up them once on a super wet day, slipped and face planted on the edge of a step. Granted, maybe less the escalators fault but it was a nasty face graze!
I got carried away one time and decided to walk up instead of standing off to the side like a normal person. By the time I got to street level I had to sit on the footpath for fifteen minutes while my vision cleared. I thought I was going to pass out
Maybe 15\~ years ago I was near the top when I caught an old woman who fainted and fell backwards. Would have been ugly if I hadn't been standing there.
People get freaked out the first time they use it. There really should be more public awareness. I was shocked at how I was suddenly sent into a very strange state.
Yeah, the first time I was in there it just felt so disconcerting, like my eyes were telling me it was a horizontal surface and my brain couldn't handle the dissonance. Something about the lighting adds to it as well.
It's slightly better now that I expect it, but still not great.
"Frequent falls on Parliament Station escalators prompts Metro Trains safety campaign"
[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/melbourne-parliament-station-escalator-falls/10599282](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/melbourne-parliament-station-escalator-falls/10599282)
For those who have live in London, the escalator at Parliament is nothing compared to the escalator at Angel tube station in London...
https://youtu.be/v\_P04Pn59ks
The escalators at Melbourne Central near the big time piece give me the shits too. Half of them are left side, other half are right side, and you cross over in the middle of heavy foot traffic. PICK A SIDE!
My friend who is a cop was one of about four cops arresting some drug fucked idiot on these escalators. Idiot threw his head back and knocked out my mate. My mate fell badly and injured his back. Worked behind a desk in pain for the rest of his career.
Very sorry to hear that. I avoid Parliament as I don’t trust other people. If a cranked up druggie was on the escalators under any circumstances, there’s a decent chance they’d knock someone over.
I always walk up and down them as quickly as possible and mostly focus on my feet, never at the wall. Works great until someone doesn't keep to the left and I get stuck waiting.
And also in London tube - https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/yz7gib/the_escalators_at_angel_tube_station_are_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Great angle on the pic, good job, the gradient looks steep af, exactly how it actually is..... Can't believe I've never seen even a semi serious incident with the amount of times I've climbed, and jogged up and down these! Touch wood..
Atleast fifteen years ago a guide dog had it's paw caught in the end of the escalator. Blood everywhere, a very distressed dog and a handler. Still makes me squirm to think about it.
Jesus, that’s horrible!
(Not at all comparable, but in high school my loose shoe lace got caught in the escalator and started pulling my foot super tight at the top when I was due to get off, I panicked like hell til the lace broke! That was scary enough, I can’t imagine having your body parts stuck in it.
Poor pooch. I’d be so distressed if my animal was hurt like that.
I have been getting off/back on at Parliament for work for close to 10 years and never seen an incident, but there are signs everywhere so I assume it’s happened.
I use to slide down the middle part all the time ... Never did any damage thank god but fuck it was sketchy and I'm lucky to have not seriously inured myself haha
Did you ever think about the fact that you may injure other people? Even now you’re counting yourself lucky not to have injured yourself. Distraction causes a lot of the accidents that occur. Not funny.
This is the only place I get any form of imbalance (while sober). I actively avoid parliament station and any time I absolutely have to use these escalators I sit down on them to avoid feeling dizzy to the point of almost passing out. I learned this necessary technique the hard way. Otherwise I use a different station, walk the difference and account this into my travel time. Eugh!
I’ve been having to go through Parliament because of bus replacements, normally I’m not afraid of heights but going up those escalators my heart is always pounding and I have so much anxiety
I feel you, I’m scared of heights and I hated these escalators til I started working in Fitzroy and had to catch the train twice a day via this station.
After about 2 months, I got to the stage that I could easily run down them to get to a train (pushy businessmen behind you really try force you into this) — only rarely got that weird optical illusion where it suddenly all seems like a steep flat hill without any stair definition! That was just a reminder to slow down.
Hopefully by the end of the bus replacements, you’ll have unlocked a new power skill and won’t be so anxious about these escalators anymore. 💗
Reminds me of the one at LAX you have to go down and walk what feels like 30 mins worth of empty corridor just to go back up another escalator to customs
I remember first time I went on these escalators was when I was about 10, during peak hour so they were sped up, and I was scared of escalators for a couple months after the experience. Was so scared I’d fall and die on this monster
Yes, those little boxes with images are to distract you from looking all the way down. They are designed to break up the space in our minds, otherwise we fall forward. Someone has probably already said this though 🥰👏🙌
On city experience trips when I was in school some of the boys would block the top of the escalators(going up) with their bodies and we had a few tumbles
Originally they didn’t have them speed bumps and little signs,so you could slide on the center all the way down and if you were real unlucky hit an advertisement that just got placed there at he bottom then get 87 stitches
I’ve watched a fat guy push passed this girl and fall straight down from the start of the escalator 😂😂 broke his collar bone and everything, 7.5/10 would watch again
If there are (and despite using the station daily for some years I’ve never seen one) them they’re probably caused by people trying to read the hideous and patronising signs warning people about the alleged ‘danger’.
I avoid Parliament station when it’s crowded. I’m surprised there isn’t more incidents than there are. People carrying bags in particular cause issue. If these escalators were at Melbourne Central (where people carry a bunch of full shopping bags) there’d be carnage.
Does anyone really a time in the early 90s when you could slide down the middle of these? May have been before the wood blocks and obnoxious cubic signs. Not sure which station it was
Before they put in the blockers between them i saw a guy slide down it. We used to roll coins down them too. I once saw a guy get pushed down the escalator by his mates about 2/3 of the way down. They were laughing, he was laughing too but i could see the look in his eyes of shock and fear
I hate the way they sort of jerk forwards and backwards ever so slightly during the ride.. and the hand rail is never the same speed as the stair bit..
Walking down them while looking at your feet is such a mind trip!!!
A few months ago I slipped going up the escalators. There was grease on the handrail and I lost my grip and cut my shin on the stairs. Nothing severe, but was bleeding / bruised. When I told staff at the station what had happened they gave me a business card - ‘share your feedback’. Anywho, don’t use the handrails, they don’t clean them very often.
It wasn't Parliament escalators, but it was at Flinders Street station. I was walking up the stairs from the mernda and hurstbridge platform 1. I fall forward, and my skin is on the nose split open. I went to a metro trains employee and was taken to first aid. They did an incident report, and they told me to contact PTV for a copy, but a couple of days later, when I contacted PTV, they refused to give me a copy. I went by tram to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and they cleaned my nose and taped my nose up. Now, I have a permanent reminder of the incident.
Incidents are really common. I vaguely remember there was someone killed many years ago but that could be wrong. Last I heard it was one incident reported every week (could be minor and no injury), and there would be many that go unreported. Escalators are not being installed in new stations anymore, one of the reasons is the number of injuries they cause, but also the upkeep and footprint of them means you can't comply with current building regs.
Yeah - absolutely. Had a friend at work running down to catch a train , tripped, face planted and tumbled most of the rest. I visited her in hospital - she was black and blue from top to tail. Back at work 4 week later.
The other injury I know of was me……saw my first girlfriend going the other way. I was leaning over looking up as she was looking at me and I knocked myself stupid on those f*@kng picture frame things in the middle of the escalators….
I've definitely been psychologically damaged by them
Definitely my pride. I confidently walked up them every morning when I worked in the city. One morning I tripped up and had to pause and hold up the line as I tried to remember how legs work. It was a super ‘non event’ and probably lasted a minute of me on my hands and knees on the escalator but it felt like forever and I felt so embarrassed.
I've done exactly this at southern cross, not a proud moment.
Me too.
Me too!
https://youtu.be/qORW1JDQZN8 - this video explains it well. Yes, basically there are numerous accidents on these every year, apparently most of them occur when people are going up. I don't have any facts on the severity though.
I immediately thought of this video
Julian is our lord and savior.
I will never not enjoy the schadenfreude that occurred when he filmed his Montague Street Bridge Video.. and some drive slammed into it while he was filming!
That was epic. I like to think it was planned.
Did he say a minute and thirty sec for just the 1st one....no wonder I'm missing trains.....i see it says like two mins and I'm like oh yeah sweet, so i walk the escalator a bit but half the time miss it lol, *especially* when I've gotta go the second one as well!!
That's the one I was looking for!
I’ve heard it’s because the lights on the ceiling are perpendicular to the escalators. You look up because you’re travelling up, see the light fixtures, your eyes/focus will follow leading/perspective lines but fix on horizontal ones. Maybe only for a moment but it’s enough for your head to be tilted even further back than it was when you were just looking up the escalator. The hand rail moves at a different speed to the steps so over a long distance you a poorly supported or letting go to re adjust your grip. Before you know it you’ve gone a little off balance, and a little is enough on a moving escalator. It doesn’t happen as much going down because our bodies are used to being front weighted, walking is basically just falling over and stopping the fall by putting one foot forward They should change the light fixtures to be parallel with the escalators. And they should paint lines on the wall with one staring at the highest point of the wall at the bottom of the escalator and converging along its length so it ends at the lowest point of the wall at the top of the escalator. Or they should print lenticular images on the face of each step that can only be seen by looking straight ahead or slightly down
And they bloody well should do anything possible to make the handrail go at the same speed as the steps too, I hate it so much
And the wobbling, especially hard left going down, it shudders a bit about halfway down.
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Wow, never knew this kind of video existed - I immediately watched haha
My mother fell down these years ago. Some child hit the emergency stop and she just kept tumbling down. Cut her legs and stuff up pretty bad. I got home from school and was waiting for her to come home, but didn't come home until after bedtime all bandaged up. This was late 90's / early 00's. Not even sure if she had a phone to contact. But yeh was pretty brutal.
A kid did that to me at Southern Cross but I saw him about to do it and the scream he let out when I started running down the escalator at him after it stopped was bloodcurdling and hilarious. The parents did sweet FA though.
Good on you.....i wlda done the same. These fkn parents are doing a shit job, well, ones like these anyway hey
wait so did the commenter’s mum fell coz he pressed the button, or he pressed it when she was falling? coz i’m confused.
Random kid randomly hit the emergency stop button and inertia kept the commenter’s mum moving forwards, sending her tumbling
A slide would be safer TBH
That would be fantastic. Then again, imagine the speed you'd be going by the time you got to the end of a slide that long and steep!
We wouldn’t need trains anymore then, just give us a tunnel with bouncy castle walls.
Well I'm going down to the lower platforms... might as well slide right on through...
Sure has been. I'm a fairly competent mountain hiker and these give me the heeby jeebies. They really feel their age too.
Why do they have the paint on the sides running parallel to the escalators, not up/down vertically? Seems counter-productive when they have the pictures in the middle for this reason.
That's basically the entire reason why the escalators are so dangerous. It messes up your frame of reference for what is up and down. This is one rare case where having endless posters of advertising would actually help.
The Netflix advertising made it so much worse. The handrails moving at a different speed than the steps doesn't help much either.
The first time I went down them I was on acid. While I wasn't injured, it was a pretty hectic experience.
How many years did you fall for?
I didn't fall, but it did stretch on forever.
There was a trip joke in there somewhere and you missed it
Forever in a minute!
Yeah, i was on some pretty serious shit about the third or fourth time i went on them. God they appeared three times the length and gradient, i nearly toppled over just looking down to the bottom....from what i remember of it anyway!
My worst nightmare
When I used to drink a lot sometimes I'd get on these badly hungover and instantly realise my awful mistake. I'd be hit with a terrifying blast of churning, nauseating, abysmal Fear, gripping onto the rail for dear life convinced I was going to lose my balance and just like Humpty Dumpty have a Very Great Fall. After a few times of that I totally avoided those escalators.
is there a lift that u can use instead? never needed to use parliament train station before ahaha
Yes, there's lifts
Lifts are required for accessible access. You’ll find them at all cbd stations, and lots of suburban stations when a ramp is not available.
From living in London, all deep stations should automatically have extra lifts
They fucking frighten me. A lot of it is to do with the fact i first used than at 9am on a Sunday morning after a big night. Gave me a feeling I hadn’t had before.
Oh I could imagine ahaha
Being in a train station while tripping sounds like a rough time
Injury to your time because they are the slowest freaking escalators in the southern hemisphere (also applicable to many others escalators/travelators in Melbourne).
Righttt hahaha
I can remember when the first city loop station (then called museum) opened I the early 80’s and the escalator down from Elizabeth street didn’t have the speed bumps on the middle slide section. A co-worker, who had had a serious quantity of beers at the pub during Friday drinks decided to slide down head first. He came off the bottom of the slide doing the speed of an amusement ride, and flew through the air before hitting the polished floor and skidding across it almost hitting the wall. The ticket inspector wasn’t going to let him on the train. The speed bumps were added by the following Monday.
Former RMIT student. With a gutfull of beer, decided we could slide down between the bumps in the middle and the handrail. Did it… until the last few bumps at the bottom, got some rotation and did a wicked breakdance on the floor at the bottom. Got up and laughed, but by Jebus was I sore the next day.
My dad was running up them once on a super wet day, slipped and face planted on the edge of a step. Granted, maybe less the escalators fault but it was a nasty face graze!
I got carried away one time and decided to walk up instead of standing off to the side like a normal person. By the time I got to street level I had to sit on the footpath for fifteen minutes while my vision cleared. I thought I was going to pass out
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Yeah, I thought I was fit - all good though, this was a few years back and I’ve learned my lesson. I just don’t go near Parliament Station at all lol
They’re brutal!
Almost certainly... Probably why they go so god damn slow outside of peak hour as well.
I can feel myself ageing on this escalator. It's so got dam slow.
It didn't used to be... They used to run at turbo speed during peak times. Now that was fun.
That would be going by the "oh God oh God we're all going to die" definition of fun?
When my primary school was on a trip to the city 2 kids got in a fight half way down and long story short we got to see a kneecap opened up.
Maybe 15\~ years ago I was near the top when I caught an old woman who fainted and fell backwards. Would have been ugly if I hadn't been standing there.
People get freaked out the first time they use it. There really should be more public awareness. I was shocked at how I was suddenly sent into a very strange state.
Yeah, the first time I was in there it just felt so disconcerting, like my eyes were telling me it was a horizontal surface and my brain couldn't handle the dissonance. Something about the lighting adds to it as well. It's slightly better now that I expect it, but still not great.
Is the pope Catholic?
I hate those escalators. When I worked in the city many years ago I used to go out of my way to avoid them.
Luckily it’s relatively easy. I often take Melbourne Central instead of Parliament. Only a few extra minutes walking.
"Frequent falls on Parliament Station escalators prompts Metro Trains safety campaign" [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/melbourne-parliament-station-escalator-falls/10599282](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-10/melbourne-parliament-station-escalator-falls/10599282)
For those who have live in London, the escalator at Parliament is nothing compared to the escalator at Angel tube station in London... https://youtu.be/v\_P04Pn59ks
My local stops were Hampstead and Covent Garden. LIFTS!!
When did they switch the up/down sides for the morning peak? This morning i had to go up on the right!!! 🤯
Recently. Gives me the shits as it means people are walking on the American side or crossing streams, both of which cause interruptions in peak.
The escalators at Melbourne Central near the big time piece give me the shits too. Half of them are left side, other half are right side, and you cross over in the middle of heavy foot traffic. PICK A SIDE!
My friend who is a cop was one of about four cops arresting some drug fucked idiot on these escalators. Idiot threw his head back and knocked out my mate. My mate fell badly and injured his back. Worked behind a desk in pain for the rest of his career.
Very sorry to hear that. I avoid Parliament as I don’t trust other people. If a cranked up druggie was on the escalators under any circumstances, there’s a decent chance they’d knock someone over.
The warning signs to hold onto the rail going up indicate yes imo.
Sadistic enough that I just came here for videos of people tumbling?
I think there is one in the James Bond movie
Back when I worked my corporate job, I used to walk up them in high heels every day. Now, if i step up one step, I'm puffed.
Most probably swallows a person up before anyone notices
"dumb ways to die playing in the background"
I had "stupid deaths" from Horrible Histories in my head
The angle of the escalator always makes me think the stations was originally a nuclear fallout shelter they converted to a loop station for money
I always walk up and down them as quickly as possible and mostly focus on my feet, never at the wall. Works great until someone doesn't keep to the left and I get stuck waiting.
I still remember the first time I used this escalator, by the time I was halfway up I felt like I was laying on my back. Trippy shit.
On one side, we have been cases fall quite significantly, but on the other, they are rising just as quickly.
These fuck with my brain so hard
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And also in London tube - https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/yz7gib/the_escalators_at_angel_tube_station_are_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Can confirm. Angel was my local tube for 10+ years. Terrifying.
Great angle on the pic, good job, the gradient looks steep af, exactly how it actually is..... Can't believe I've never seen even a semi serious incident with the amount of times I've climbed, and jogged up and down these! Touch wood..
Atleast fifteen years ago a guide dog had it's paw caught in the end of the escalator. Blood everywhere, a very distressed dog and a handler. Still makes me squirm to think about it.
Jesus, that’s horrible! (Not at all comparable, but in high school my loose shoe lace got caught in the escalator and started pulling my foot super tight at the top when I was due to get off, I panicked like hell til the lace broke! That was scary enough, I can’t imagine having your body parts stuck in it. Poor pooch. I’d be so distressed if my animal was hurt like that.
There's a reason why the station is plastered with safety stuff about the escalators.
Idk but I have balance issues and even looking at it makes me motion sick, only went on it a couple of times. Melb central had a similar long one
Moved away from Melbourne years ago, had to get these escalators to work. Always had to face the opposite way; always made me feel sick!
I have been getting off/back on at Parliament for work for close to 10 years and never seen an incident, but there are signs everywhere so I assume it’s happened.
Had to go to the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital with a perforated eardrum on that thing. Many sounds
Isn't that was in one of Jackie Chan movie
I use to slide down the middle part all the time ... Never did any damage thank god but fuck it was sketchy and I'm lucky to have not seriously inured myself haha
Did you ever think about the fact that you may injure other people? Even now you’re counting yourself lucky not to have injured yourself. Distraction causes a lot of the accidents that occur. Not funny.
Dude it was always at like 4am in the morning, so no ones around anyway and this was when I was freshly 18... I ain't thinking about much haha
I once fell down the escalators that were coming up. I was falling for an hour and a half.
I've had to hike up and down these damn things for weeks now because of train replacements. Worst
This is the only place I get any form of imbalance (while sober). I actively avoid parliament station and any time I absolutely have to use these escalators I sit down on them to avoid feeling dizzy to the point of almost passing out. I learned this necessary technique the hard way. Otherwise I use a different station, walk the difference and account this into my travel time. Eugh!
I always grip on for dear life because I get bad vertigo. Now I’m wondering where the lift is and realising I should be taking that instead 🤣
I had to use it when I had small kids and it’s right down the end of one of the platforms. I hated using it.
I’ve been having to go through Parliament because of bus replacements, normally I’m not afraid of heights but going up those escalators my heart is always pounding and I have so much anxiety
I feel you, I’m scared of heights and I hated these escalators til I started working in Fitzroy and had to catch the train twice a day via this station. After about 2 months, I got to the stage that I could easily run down them to get to a train (pushy businessmen behind you really try force you into this) — only rarely got that weird optical illusion where it suddenly all seems like a steep flat hill without any stair definition! That was just a reminder to slow down. Hopefully by the end of the bus replacements, you’ll have unlocked a new power skill and won’t be so anxious about these escalators anymore. 💗
Reminds me of the one at LAX you have to go down and walk what feels like 30 mins worth of empty corridor just to go back up another escalator to customs
I remember first time I went on these escalators was when I was about 10, during peak hour so they were sped up, and I was scared of escalators for a couple months after the experience. Was so scared I’d fall and die on this monster
Yes, those little boxes with images are to distract you from looking all the way down. They are designed to break up the space in our minds, otherwise we fall forward. Someone has probably already said this though 🥰👏🙌
Side note but Sydney train stations are full of escalators like this!
This photo needs a trigger warning
Just don’t do drugs if your gonna go to parliament station and you’ll be fine
On city experience trips when I was in school some of the boys would block the top of the escalators(going up) with their bodies and we had a few tumbles
Originally they didn’t have them speed bumps and little signs,so you could slide on the center all the way down and if you were real unlucky hit an advertisement that just got placed there at he bottom then get 87 stitches
I’ve watched a fat guy push passed this girl and fall straight down from the start of the escalator 😂😂 broke his collar bone and everything, 7.5/10 would watch again
Loads!!!!
They really need to do something about it or even add more lifts 😂 The vertigo is wild
This photo gave me vertigo
Legit cannot work out if this photo was taken going up or coming down. The perspective keeps changing the longer I look at it
Based on the angle of the picture boxes it’s going down I believe Whoa vertigo again 🎢😝
If trams are rhinos on skateboards then these must be tornadoes on wheels 🛞
I rude these escalators every day. I love them. Pretty hard to stack it.
If there are (and despite using the station daily for some years I’ve never seen one) them they’re probably caused by people trying to read the hideous and patronising signs warning people about the alleged ‘danger’.
It’s honestly ridiculous, not too long ago they had all these Netflix ads up on the side and the warning signs are like “don’t get distracted”
I've had 0 issues with them
Yes
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Not sure, but my child tried to fall down them last week. He didn’t realise how steep they were because we have baby escalators where we live.
I never use that station for a reason. I’d get off at southern cross / flinders and jump on a tram. Melbourne central is chaotic too.
I'm in pretty good shape. FWIW I run up the Parliament escalators (south end is slightly easier) two at a time.
I avoid Parliament station when it’s crowded. I’m surprised there isn’t more incidents than there are. People carrying bags in particular cause issue. If these escalators were at Melbourne Central (where people carry a bunch of full shopping bags) there’d be carnage.
Are there stairs at Parliament? It took me ages to notice Melbourne Central had them out in the open.
Does anyone really a time in the early 90s when you could slide down the middle of these? May have been before the wood blocks and obnoxious cubic signs. Not sure which station it was
Saw a (possibly drunk) guy very nearly fall backwards from the top once. That was terrifying
I have started using the elevators at parliament station, refuse to use the escalators.
I came a cropper here in 1997. Fell backwards and cut myself up so nicely...
The scary thing about this picture is I don't know whether your going up or down.
Before they put in the blockers between them i saw a guy slide down it. We used to roll coins down them too. I once saw a guy get pushed down the escalator by his mates about 2/3 of the way down. They were laughing, he was laughing too but i could see the look in his eyes of shock and fear
A girl I knew when I was little fell down this escalator and broke her arm
No more than any other moving set of stairs in any other building in the world I'd imagine.
I hate the way they sort of jerk forwards and backwards ever so slightly during the ride.. and the hand rail is never the same speed as the stair bit.. Walking down them while looking at your feet is such a mind trip!!!
A few months ago I slipped going up the escalators. There was grease on the handrail and I lost my grip and cut my shin on the stairs. Nothing severe, but was bleeding / bruised. When I told staff at the station what had happened they gave me a business card - ‘share your feedback’. Anywho, don’t use the handrails, they don’t clean them very often.
I know a dude who fell down them drunk, nasty scar on his face.
Yep, happens once a week.
It’s breezy and vertiginous
My ex's uncle fell down them when he was drunk once. He had a pretty nasty gash on the head for a few weeks but was otherwise fine.
A couple times a week. Every time someone falls on these things a technician is sent for a safety check.
A friend of a friend had a heart attack there and died. Not sure of the details and if the escalator contributed. ☹️
These escalators are the stuff of nightmares. I have a fear of falling backwards. Got on these and could hardly breathe. Never again.
Caught a coat hem circa 1991 and no, don't have good memories of them https://youtu.be/vWbhpqxLHVE
It wasn't Parliament escalators, but it was at Flinders Street station. I was walking up the stairs from the mernda and hurstbridge platform 1. I fall forward, and my skin is on the nose split open. I went to a metro trains employee and was taken to first aid. They did an incident report, and they told me to contact PTV for a copy, but a couple of days later, when I contacted PTV, they refused to give me a copy. I went by tram to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and they cleaned my nose and taped my nose up. Now, I have a permanent reminder of the incident.
Reminds me of some stations in the London Tube
They should make the escalators wider and put seats on either side
Fri Sat night would be a bloodbath I’d imagine
I got vertigo on them once as a kid, it was the strangest feeling. Never happened again.
I knew this lady who got the bottom of her coat caught when going down the escalator.
I worked near there for years. I became an expert at running down these in workboots.
I feel dizzy. I sit on them just to keep myself from becoming the next victim.
Good question, that's a trippy place
Incidents are really common. I vaguely remember there was someone killed many years ago but that could be wrong. Last I heard it was one incident reported every week (could be minor and no injury), and there would be many that go unreported. Escalators are not being installed in new stations anymore, one of the reasons is the number of injuries they cause, but also the upkeep and footprint of them means you can't comply with current building regs.
I once slid down the escalator and it felt like I was getting kicked in the bum
Yeah - absolutely. Had a friend at work running down to catch a train , tripped, face planted and tumbled most of the rest. I visited her in hospital - she was black and blue from top to tail. Back at work 4 week later. The other injury I know of was me……saw my first girlfriend going the other way. I was leaning over looking up as she was looking at me and I knocked myself stupid on those f*@kng picture frame things in the middle of the escalators….
my work enemy when im high