LA: 0.46 meters/s (1 mph)Hong Kong: 0.75 meters/s (1.7 mph)Kyiv: 0.9 meters/s (2 mph)Kinda slower than I expected in general. I assume the speed is mostly dictated by boarding/alighting safety.
Kyiv subway stations are also air raid shelters.[1] They may have decided that running the escalators fast to get people to safety is worth the risk.[1] <a href="https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/" rel="nofollow">https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/
> Kyiv subway stations are also air raid sheltersWhen building them, they probably didn’t expect to be hiding from Russian attacks.
No, but they did everything else: Engineered famines (the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Holocaust), gulags, and mass executions (Khruschev's first major job, being Stalin's liquidator in Ukraine).
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Hong Kong: 0.75 meters/s (1.7 mph)
Kyiv: 0.9 meters/s (2 mph)
Kinda slower than I expected in general. I assume the speed is mostly dictated by boarding/alighting safety.
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[1] <a href="https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/" rel="nofollow">https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/
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When building them, they probably didn’t expect to be hiding from Russian attacks.
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The USSR didn’t bomb it’s citizens all that often did it?
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