Older women sitting in cubicles at the bottom of escalators in the Moscow metro and ticking off anyone who breaks the rules were long a symbol of the iconic system, its stations adorned with ...

Compared to Washington's Wheaton, the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere with a reported 480 steps, Moscow's escalators, Likhachev says, are in a class by themselves.

Metro may be the world's largest owner of an outmoded and problematic type of escalator, one that has had brake failure accidents in other transit systems and is known among experts for requiring ...

An escalator in a Rome metro station packed with CSKA Moscow soccer fans broke on Tuesday, injuring at least 20 people as they were flung down the stairs, Italian police said.