Stairway to Suburbia

Many of the people who work on Hong Kong island live about ½ way up the mountain behind the city. At one point, the traffic from the apartment towers got so bad, that the city came up with a solution. They built the world’s longest escalator to transport the workers between their home and the city. It’s a one-way escalator, going into town in the morning and away from down in the evening. It stretches for miles. We ran into it during the evening rush hour yesterday. Everyone just hangs out and talks on their phones as they cruise home at night.

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