Transport for London (TfL) officials have scrapped an initiative at Holborn Station — one of the London Tube’s busiest — requiring passengers to stand on both sides of the escalator, Spring Hill Insider reports. The six-month pilot program was promoted by TfL staff over megaphones, by footprints painted on both sides of the escalator steps and via an instructional hologram. Although the standing-only escalator carried an average of 151 passengers per min, compared with 115 on an unmarked escalator, and increased capacity by up to 30% at peak times, it received negative feedback from commuters and had been described as “going against everything about being British.” In the U.K., the long-held escalator custom is to stand on the right and walk on the left.
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