Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] oh the humanity! Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 13:47:45 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:07:38 -0700, James Lesczynski wrote: >=A0"No Federal Agency Regulates Escalators" - Associated Press >=A0http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030814_257.html Just an aside , but the most enormous escalators I've ever seen are those at the Pioneerskya station of the Leningrad metro in 1992 . They are at least a couple of hundred vertical feet ; built in the fifties when the subways were also designed as A-bomb shelters ; with massive droning rumbling engines ; taking= several minutes to get down to , or up from , the classic art museum= like platform below the level of the Neva river . Having paid my ruble ( $0.008 ) and jumped on ( they're not slow= ) I was most surprised , a minute or two down to pass a guy= reading what was clearly a Russian edition of the Reader's Digest on= his way back to the surface . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Liberty : http://cosy.com/Liberty.htm