[HN Gopher] Rue de L'Avenir
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       Rue de L'Avenir
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2024-01-05 04:48 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | nvalis wrote:
       | I love the concept of moving walkways on large airports and
       | always wondered why there are non with multiple speeds like this
       | one. Is it a security aspect?
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       | There is however an accelerating one at YYZ in Toronto [0].
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       | [0]
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#ThyssenKrupp_AC...
        
         | hinkley wrote:
         | Accelerating escalators are both fascinating and absolutely
         | terrifying to me.
        
       | hinkley wrote:
       | Anybody here go through the DFW airport about 20 years ago? That
       | airport has had moving walkways for 30+ years that I'm aware of.
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       | In 200X, there was an IR sensor at the end of each walkway that
       | would trigger a male voiceover warning about the end of the
       | "moving walk".
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       | There was a Starbucks in one of the terminals, right at a dogleg
       | where a section of the walk ended. I had to listen to that
       | announcement fifty to 100 times in a dozen or so minutes, and
       | between recording, playback, and audio compression quality, my
       | partner and I both swore he was saying "the wooing walk". Like a
       | ventriloquist trying to not get caught subbing out consonants -
       | and failing. The Wooing/Mooing Walk was a running joke the rest
       | of our relationship.
        
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