Many times I have noticed that when I ride on an escalator its railing belt is not rolling
at the same speed. Some times it moves little faster, sometimes little slower than the main
escalator. So escalator may have some fault like other machines. But I have never thought it
may kill.
Escalator is very common in today’s modern shopping malls. Its electricity consumption rate
is very high, but shopping mall owners are very keen to run escalator for their commercial
interest.
Safety standards are not always met in building new structures. It is met in escalators?
Recently in Chinese capital a teenage boy was killed and 29 others were injured in an
escalator accident.
Suddenly the rising escalator started to run in opposite direction grinding loudly. This
caused passengers standing on the escalator to lose their balance, with those at the top
falling on the people behind them. People fell into a pile and the teenage boy was buried
under others.
Though the escalator had guaranteed period and undergone routine maintenance at the end of
last month.
May we question about our escalators in Dhaka?