How do you stand on escalators?
Some Copenhagen train stations have recently added a sign to their escalators which tells travelers where to stand. (The principle is simply that you stand on the right and walk on the left, so people in a hurry don’t have to fight past dawdlers.) But the translation may confuse more English speakers than it helps.
Stand right? What is the wrong way to stand?
September 4th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Obviously they need to stand up straight. No slouching in all that lovely new architecture.
Also, they must be the only bloody signs in the Metro. God knows how visitors cope with the minimalist approach - there are no big maps. They could learn a lot from London Underground.
September 4th, 2009 at 9:34 am
It struck me that it was confusing, An instance where pictograms might make sense, regarding the - lack of - signs in the Metro, yes they should have taken hints from London, New York, Paris you name it, but no, no. Now they’re putting useless signs up like that, it’s like it’s a big problem to aske people to move if they’re in front of you, and are you really in such a hurry anyways. Yeah I know the danes, they’d rather push you if you don’t move by using some kind of psyic power, than ask you politely to move.
BTW did an experiment at Nørreport Station some years ago, I asked my mother to find her way to the Metro, while standing in the tunnel that connects the Regional, S-Tog and Metro. Her eyes caught the pictogram that shows an old steam engine, “it must be that way”, no, there are NO pictograms at eye-level that points to the Metro, what is there is a sign that is placed above the entrance, in completly different letterhead, and the only sign of it’s kind that I think I’ve encountered in the Metro.
ps. They still have the “I FART” signs at the elevators at Central Station, despite it being a rather well known blunder, I heard about it first in my childhood, this must be an official prank