# Moving walkways in airports **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-walkways-in-airports/985087 "2023-06-06T04:40:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-walkways-in-airports/985087/8 "2023-06-06T07:19:52Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > The so-called people movers purpose is to speed up travel through the concourse, not to give standers a break. The moving walks are to help those who cannot walk long distances. Instead of having a subway, bus or other transport, the airport has decide to use a moving walk. Also used quite frequently in subway systems, such as the London Underground. In Schiphol, it is well marked that people should stand on the right and walk on the left. In many places such signage does not exist. It’s exactly the same discussion which is for escalators. Or even moving sidewalks > [@Moving sidewalks in airports](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-sidewalks-in-airports/845189): > > Since the holiday travel season is coming up, I’m curious as to how the dopers treat these modern marvels that were only ideas during the time of the Jetsons. wink I continue walking upon stepping into one, as I see their purpose is to speed up foot traffic flow through the airport. But the is no small percentage of people that view them as horizontal escalators, that are to take over their forward progress so that they do not need to expend any more energy to get from point A to point B. A… That said, it is mildy annoying when standers decide to block the entire width of the walkway, especially with lots of luggage, which will again be annoying when those same people are filling up the overhead bins. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-walkways-in-airports/985087)._