Hai Prateek: Escalators or nothing to be afraid of. In fact, if I go to shopping malls and other places, I prefer using escalators since it is one way of showing folks that we are not necessarily out of touch with modern enhancements to buildings. It is highly important that we get used to them, since the up coming Bangalore Metro is supposed to have escalators in some stations.
Methods of using it: Ask someone to put your hand (right or left) on the railing. Remember that the railings are also moving along with the footboard below, so don't hold them tightly. Just keep your hand to have a feel of them. Ask the escort or the assistant to let you know when exactly to keep your foot on the footboard. You have to do it as as the footboard comes exactly equal to the floor before moving up. This could be tricky. Though I had failed exactly to place my feet on the footboard before it moved forward, I never had any significant discomfort. The key here is not to panic but to understand how the mechanism works. Once or twice you try this and you would never find it uncomfortable. Also, keep your feet and toes slightly lifted so that it would be easier for you to understand if the board is about to connect with top or bottom floors. This is much easier to do while descending. All you need to do is to keep the toes slightly outside the footboard. The moment the board comes equal to the floor you can alight from the escalator without assistance . In fact, last time I was on an escalator, I asked the person accompanying me if there were people ahead. He said no. I then started to run up the escalator and reached the top floor before others. I did it for fun and won't recommend this to anyone, am telling this just to make you feel how enjoyable escalators can be. Subramani On 4/11/11, prateek aggarwal <[email protected]> wrote: > hi folks, > hope you all are doing great. > With all the traveling I’ve been doing from past whatever months to > different parts of world, one of the problems I’m facing is to cope > with escalators. > Escalators are becoming common in Indian structures too, but I found a > lot of escalators at various places especially in countries like US, > UK etc. > No matter whatever I’ve tried, I haven’t been able to independently > use the escalators, and in fact, found myself in a strange nuisance > all the times I have to use them. > for Those who don’t know, I’m a totally blind. > > Though I manage to take someone’s help to climb through escalators, > but even in that case find a lot uneasiness, particularly due to the > strange manner most of the people use to help me. > Sometimes, 2 people holding my hands from both the sides, shouting > like hell when I have to further my leg, and all that irritates me to > the crest. > I feel like a victim and find a serious discomfiture. > > Since many of you have been traveling across the world and using > escalators from quite sometime now, I request you to kindly share your > experiences on how do you cope with them. > Since I do not have any sight available, it’ll be helpful if you can > help me by describing from that perspective. > > So, can you please guide me on the following? > 1. how to determine when to further the legs when you are totally > blind and can not catch the visual signals? > 2. is there a technique to do it independently? > 3. I feel a little apprehensive about risk of legs to get wedged into > the stairways. Is there a way out? > > Your valuable guidance will be of great use, not just for me, but for > lot of others like me. > > Hoping to have some positive responses. > > Regards, > Prateek agarwal. > Director, > Daedal technovations pvt. Ltd. > www.daedaltechnovations.com > we bring the change we wish to see! > > Website: > www.prateekagarwal.tk > | > www.prateekagarwal.webs.com > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > -- L. Subramani, Snr. Subeditor, Deccan Herald, Bangalore, M: 91-9886046612 "You see and ask why? I dream and ask why not?" To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
