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Hong Kong escalator. The article makes a passing reference to maintenance. What I found impressive (whilst in HK for a few months through work) was how reliable the system is, even though it’s outdoors.
Compare and contrast with the short sections of outdoor escalators at Stratford station (escalators to the connecting bridge over the tracks to give access into Westfield) which barely seem to operate for a couple of hours before they’re broken yet again.
@IslandDweller Not taking anything away from the Central-Mid Level Escalator’s impressive reliability, but I would think the lack of freezing temperatures reduces the problem somewhat. Although on the other hand it likely has to deal with sudden deluges of water from tropical rains.
I was there when it was being built. It’s all covered and the workings protected. The weather is pretty much tropical year round with rain at 3pm daily. Typhoon rain is dealt with by the hillside. That article is from 2016.