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Mark Jolles <Jollesm@sf.logica.com> wrote:

>Rosslyn was about 210 feet long.  Dupont Circle is about 204 or 206.  
>Wheaton is probably about 215 or 220.  The one is St. Petersburg is the 
>longest but I don't know how long.  The Wheaton one is the longest in the 
>Western World if that phrase still applies.  Forest Glen, south of 
>Wheaton is actually a deeper station but the travel time on an escalator 
>would have been prohibitive so they put in 6 elevators.  The escalator in 
>Wheaton takes one minute twenty seconds to ascend/descend.  The elevators 
>at Forest Glen take about twenty seconds.  Metro designs their system 
>based a lot on travel times.  The Forest Glen Station is about twenty two 
>stories deep in the ground (about 220 down vertically).  I got this info 
>from the head architect or planner at Metro.  Give him a call sometime.  
>He's very informative.

While we are on the subject of escalators and travel time, all
escalators in Eastern Europe run at substantially faster speeds than
those here. It seems 2-3 times as fast, but I don't really know. Does
anyone know what the story is on the speed of these. (You haven't
lived you've been catapulted from the bottom of one of these
escalators.


Regards

Les
Washington DC