0 a set of stairs moved up or down by electric power on which people can stand and be taken from one level of a building to another, especially in shops, railway stations, and airports: --
1 a set of stairs that moves by electric power and on which people can stand to be taken up and down from one level to another, usually within a building --
Because of the new escalator link, they will have direct access to the main line station.
Anyone on the escalator of inflation with one or more capital assets behind him may consider that the situation is not too serious.
There is also one escalator serving the underground car park.
In addition, they look at cleanliness, the state of escalators, and so on.
We read that the chief fire officer found the same problems of poor housekeeping and electrical wiring in escalator machine rooms year after year.
And the space business has all the hallmarks of such an escalator.
Yet, here again, the actual locations are unequivocally (and literally) liminal: at the foot of escalators, at bifurcations in pedestrian tunnels, at the interchanges between lines.
Randai has thus gone down and up cultural escalators 5 in the space of three generations.