Subway Escalator

The subway escalators are pretty notorious. It's like the Congress, it needs a break every now and then, sometimes even in the midst of a financial crisis, it still needs a break. Oh well, that's how our Congress works. Often time, the escalators in the subway system just don't work, it's just serves like regular stairs. I guess the benefit is every commuter, young or old, can use a step master on his way to work or back home. The 5th Avenue and 42nd Street entrance near Bryant Park is totally devoid of any escalators and it has at least three 13-step flights of stairs to negotiate (all together 5 flights of stairs with certain degrees of incline actually, I counted). I have seen people, like myself, need to stop and recoup before they can finish the whole ascend from the belly of the City to street level. I guess in some way, it's good for the average commuter. We all can use some exercise in the morning.

UPDATE:
As if on cue, today in the morning (October 9), none of the escalators near the Q26 stop on Roosevelt worked. That's just great. One was blocked for usage, so you couldn't even walk on it and the other one was used as a staircase. Thank goodness, I was just going down, not up.