Your changing floors at the department store and you lean on the hand rail to take a rest noticing that ever so gradually your hand is getting further and further away from you, either ahead or behind.
Sloggish is the new term that the National Escalator Safety Board has given to this phenomenon. When the hand rail moves faster or slower than the escalator steps.
Some rails in the area moved so fast that riders found their bodies almost parallel to the steps.
"It's a problem that needs addressing, but I still think Baltimore has the sloggishiest escalators," said Lou Ruby Phillips, head of the Philadelphia Escalator,Elevator,Steps,and Fireman's Pole Safety Board.
Philadelphia leads the nation in sloggishiest escalators, but the top ten included some surprises: 2.Baltimore, MD 3.Erie,PA 4.New Philadelphia, MS 5.Escalador, NM 6.Seattle, WA 7.Baltimore, MD 8.Miami, FL 9.Erie, PA 10.Queens, NY.
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