Disabled access to the metro

We interrupt the whining of the previous post for this brief observation...

I did see something interesting on the metro today. In fact, I saw the same thing the other day but forgot to mention it. Both times, a disabled guy in a wheelchair went down into the metro by reversing his wheelchair onto the escalator and sort of leaning back to take the front wheels off the ground, if that makes any sense. It may not say much about the accessibility, but I was rather impressed all the same. (Some stations do have lifts, based on my observations, but probably not all.) Today at least this was obviously done with co-operation from the staff, as the escalator was normally used to take people up but they deliberately blocked it off and turned it around to go down just so he could use it, then reverted it to upward use afterwards.

Both times it was a youngish, fairly fit looking chap, I have no idea if the same thing would happen with someone older or more infirm. But I thought it was freakily cool all the same.