Breaking News: New Travelators/Escalators in all airports

[Confuscious]

The Board of Engineers from Thailand has decided to replace all the travelators/escalators in the Airports of Thailand with a new state of the art model.
This new model ensures the safety of their users far better as the existing travelators/escalators.

 

[Photoguy21]

Why replace them? Maybe having good quality maintenance would be a better and more sustainable approach. Always the way in Thailand if there is a problem with something replace them never think about providing proper maintenance and saving money.

[Nick Carter icp]

2 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Why replace them? Maybe having good quality maintenance would be a better and more sustainable approach. Always the way in Thailand if there is a problem with something replace them never think about providing proper maintenance and saving money.

Did you look at the photo ?

[Photoguy21]

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Did you look at the photo ?

Yes I did and proper maintenance would ensure the useful life. The operative word being proper

[Nick Carter icp]

Just now, Photoguy21 said:

Yes I did and proper maintenance would ensure the useful life. The operative word being proper

They are normal concrete stairs , its not an escalator 

 

[Moonlover]

3 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Did you look at the photo ?

 

3 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Yes I did and proper maintenance would ensure the useful life. The operative word being proper

Some folks just don't get rhetorical questions do they. 

[Photoguy21]

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

They are normal concrete stairs , its not an escalator 

 

So what? Do you think it is easier and cheaper to install a new one or to actually provide maintenance for the existing one? Stairs like many other things can actually be repaired and if maintained will last for just about ever.

[Photoguy21]

Just now, Moonlover said:

 

Some folks just don't get rhetorical questions do they. 

Some people just dont think before asking as well

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

So what? Do you think it is easier and cheaper to install a new one or to actually provide maintenance for the existing one? Stairs like many other things can actually be repaired and if maintained will last for just about ever.

Did you read the text ?

The new escalators are safer , nothing to do with any maintenance issues .

   There has been some accidents recently with escalators and they have changed the design to make them safer 

[Photoguy21]

2 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Some people just dont think before asking as well

Asking what exactly? Basic problem a system is getting old yes they all do. That doesnt mean they cant be maintained to a long extended life. Everybody seems to believe if it is an old installation you have to start again. We are in this thread talking about travellators and the like not a steam engine for an aircraft. evidently not many people here have been involved with maintenance and cost analysis associated.

[Photoguy21]

Just now, Nick Carter icp said:

Did you read the text ?

The new escalators are safer , nothing to do with any maintenance issues .

   There has been some accidents recently with escalators and they have changed the design to make them safer 

The accidents have more than likely been due to poor or no maintenance not because of the age.

[ExpatOilWorker]

That didn't take long. Who from the new government have a family member owning a state-of-the-art escalator company?

[scorecard]

11 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

So what? Do you think it is easier and cheaper to install a new one or to actually provide maintenance for the existing one? Stairs like many other things can actually be repaired and if maintained will last for just about ever.

But if now all replaced with new  will there be a new approach to regular inspections, repair, maintence?

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

The accidents have more than likely been due to poor or no maintenance not because of the age.

What is the maintenance record of those escalators ?

How often do the manufactures recommend maintenance and how often is maintenance carried out ?

   Do your claims have any basis in facts ?

[Nick Carter icp]

7 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

The accidents have more than likely been due to poor or no maintenance not because of the age.

The recent accidents have been because many people now carry luggage that have wheels on the bottom of the luggage and these wheels get stuck in the escalator and causes accidents

   The new escalators are designed to the wheel doesn't get stuck , so, nothing to do with maintenance

[KannikaP]

24 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

They are normal concrete stairs , its not an escalator 

 

Not made from RAAC I hope!

[norbra]

Back in the 1980's most escalators/travelators in Australia were retrofitted with these "amazingly new safety" devices most are still running without incident.

[Nick Carter icp]

Just now, norbra said:

Back in the 1980's most escalators/travelators in Australia were retrofitted with these "amazingly new safety" devices most are still running without incident.

It wasn't , those were installed in Austria in the 1980's

[norbra]

4 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

It wasn't , those were installed in Austria in the 1980's

What wasn't? Austria?

[ExpatOilWorker]

8 minutes ago, norbra said:

What wasn't? Austria?

 

[metisdead]

Moving on over to the Pub forum. 

[2long]

Maybe the brother, wife or cousin of someone in power sell these models, and it's 'convenient' for a government contract to replace them ALL!

I mean, how many millions of people use these things in Thailand's airports every year and how many accidents have their been? You have a better chance of dying from (or surviving) rabies or winning the lottery jackpot or finding a policeman awake and sober!

[JensenZ]

4 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Did you read the text ?

The new escalators are safer , nothing to do with any maintenance issues .

   There has been some accidents recently with escalators and they have changed the design to make them safer 

In airports, where people have luggage, the concrete stairs would most certainly not be safer. One person in many decades of operation having a leg chewed off by a travelator does not make this mode of transportation dangerous.

[chickenslegs]

@Confuscious has confused a few members.

 

My brain hurts after reading some of the replies..

[josephbloggs]

6 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

@Confuscious has confused a few members.

 

My brain hurts after reading some of the replies..

It just shows how many posters here post simply based on headlines rather than reading / looking at the information in the post or article.

Kind of embarrassed for some of the replies.

[Nick Carter icp]

27 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

In airports, where people have luggage, the concrete stairs would most certainly not be safer. One person in many decades of operation having a leg chewed off by a travelator does not make this mode of transportation dangerous.

The concrete stairs in the photo are not actually the new escalators, I think that was a joke .

   Escalators are being replaced by a safer modern version escalator, but its not the stairs in the photo 

[Confuscious]

10 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

@Confuscious has confused a few members.

 

My brain hurts after reading some of the replies..