Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.

Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.

Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.

I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.

Automate the headlights so drivers can't forget to turn them on in low visibility.

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.