@bikepedantic haha I'm trying to imagine a world where people say "electric stairs? that's cheating!"

@bikepedantic alt text 4 u:
in the spacious atrium or lobby of a convention center, some inviting, wide, red-carpeted stairs with lovely wooden cap railings and shiny lower hand railings and plenty of intermediate landings -- and they are completely empty -- flanked by two skinny escalators filled with people.