on escalators with this one one of the most dangerous in the network with injuries from falls resulting in facial cuts bruises and emergency room visits so let's head back up and i'll explain why now as we take this up i'm going to face downwards so i can more clearly explain what's going on but here's a view from the bottom the safety study looked at NUMBER_TOKEN plus injuries and found that around halfway due to falling backwards while traveling up on the escalator and that was around twice as many as falling forward while going down so what were the reasons well the length and the fact that this is so busy in rush hour was part of the problem but design was also a factor as you can see the ceiling of the tunnel descends with the escalators and the stainless steel reflects some of the lights above which can lead to spatial disorientation and that leads to feelings of dizziness vertigo and a loss of balance and this is more likely to affect elderly people who are the most susceptible to falls on escalators another factor is that while you're on it due to those sloping ceilings and unlike normal escalators which are open there's no real horizon reference point see all these lines they actually run at NUMBER_TOKEN degrees to the escalator not a true horizontal and not a true vertical and this is one of the reasons why NUMBER_TOKEN of the falls were by people who had firm footings to solve this a campaign has gone up with signage around the station encouraging people to hold on and to avoid distractions slower speeds have come in and more announcements all on this mission to cut the number of injuries now this escalator might not be australia's longest for much longer in perth they're constructing the airport central railway station which is due to open in NUMBER_TOKEN and that's going to include a NUMBER_TOKEN metre escalator and let's also hope that some of these safety measures work so it can lose its title as australia's most dangerous i've got more videos about how design is impacting lives including the world's ugliest colour and how it's saving lives i'm julian ishay that's it for me and welcome to parliament station did you there are two to three injuries a week on spiders many of these could be avoided by simply holding on and not letting yourself get distracted thank you thank you for traveling with metro
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