Escalator News

Offering a remarkable view of New York City, photos by a ThyssenKrupp Elevator staffer show an escalator being pulled to the top of the new One World Trade Center.

A Boston woman attempted to go up the escalator on the motorized scooter she was riding on but ended up taking a spill instead.

Starting Sunday it's Canada's National Elevator Escalator Safety Awareness Week. The experts at Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) want to remind the public they have a role when it comes to riding escalators safely.

Istanbul - A four-year-old climbed the outside of an escalator in an Istanbul shopping centre, precariously dangling eight feet off the ground when he reached the top. A quick-thinking shop owner saved his life.

Usually it’s a shoe lace or flip-flop that gets someone trapped on an escalator, but sometimes it something far more out of the ordinary.

A man filmed himself skiiing down the nearly 200-foot Angel tube station escalator in London.