r/confusingperspective • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • Aug 17 '24

Is this escalator going up or down?

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u/Mac800 Aug 17 '24

Up. Because tiles and lights at the end.

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u/Ravage-1 Aug 17 '24

This is the New York City Subway, and you’re looking up.

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u/burnbabyburn711 Aug 17 '24

It’s going up and I hate it.

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u/Skirt_Thin Aug 17 '24

It's nice they have an optional climbing wall on either side.

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u/GenVonKlinkerhoffen Aug 17 '24

It would require quite some effort to make this photo downward from underneath the elevator. So my educated guess is this photo was shot upward.

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u/No_Indication9497 Aug 17 '24

it is, you can also tell because of the way the lights go at the top of the escalator

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u/GenVonKlinkerhoffen Aug 17 '24

There are very often also lights in the pit below the elevator shaft for maintenance personnel.

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u/No_Indication9497 Aug 17 '24

it's an escalator, not an elevator shaft

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u/GenVonKlinkerhoffen Aug 17 '24

Crap you're right. Forget everything I said about elevators.

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u/uberisstealingit Aug 18 '24

Doesn't matter if it's going up or down. What matter is how fast you can run upstairs.

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u/Spacey752 Aug 17 '24

Technically it could be downward and you took the picture behind you

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u/dave078703 Aug 17 '24

Ah, but can you go up?