One of the things I have been most impressed with during my stay in Belgium is the escalators here, a wonderful advancement in procuring a green environment. If you walk into a metro station in the States you will hear the buzz of the escalators going up and down. If you walk into an empty metro station at night you will hear silence. How can this difference be? It is not that the Belgians do not have escalators, it is just that they have rigged them to only go when someone walks onto a platform in front of it. What a brilliant idea! Escalators that go on and off with only the light tap of a foot. Why can't we have these in the United States? Probably someone will try to burst my bubble by saying that it takes more energy to turn the escalator on and off then it does to leave it on. Don't do it. I prefer to be bumbiling happy every time I walk onto an escalator pad to turn it on.
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