Would be nice if Metro would concentrate on fixing all the broken escalators in the system and forget about the canopies.
Actually, I would hope that the canopies would keep some of the water out and maybe prevent some of the problems. That said, Metro still needs to spend some time fixing the broken escalators. I saw a rare event yesterday at Huntington: Someone was working on the Huntington South Street escalator (due to be fixed yesterday, but once again, Metro failed to meet the latest in a long series of return-to-service dates).
I was so happy to see that staircase this morning. Should relieve the bottleneck of people trying to get down the one escalator header down at evening rush hour.
The problem with relieving the down-ward bottleneck on the one escalator is that the stairs are on the wrong side! They should be NEXT to the down escalator, so that when people see a bottleneck they can quickly shift to the stairs. Instead, they will now have to cut across the traffic from the two up escalators to get there. That will discourage people from actually doing this, and when people do, it will mix with and slow the up traffic.
Instead of having a Canopy, why don't they have two escalators going down forthe afternoon rush-hour. Every afternoon is the same thing, one escalator going down and two going up, why can't they swich.
Pachacutec