Given a choice between a revolving door or a regular one, which would you choose?
I like revolving ones, although I don’t often see them. I was visiting someone at a hospital today and they have a large automatic one, presumably for the convenience of people in wheelchairs.
If you mean “you are walking into a building and can use either normal or revolving door” I would choose normal. If you mean “pick one for your entrance door” then it would be regionally selective.
In my travels to colder regions I thought revolving doors were great, especially double revolving doors to form an insulating chamber.
Taken a bit more simplistically, I think revolving doors are better for traffic flow.
As someone with mobility issues, I HATE those.
Why?
I like the doors where you can push the large (handicap icon) button and the door swings open for you. I don’t think I have been through a revolving door in 10+ years
I go through revolving doors every day. I will choose the revolving one over the conventional one whenever possible, they’re there to save heat/air conditioning and I prefer to contribute my share of saving energy, however tiny that may be.
Because I walk much more slowly than I used to, and have balance problems. I need to walk through a door at my own pace, without worrying that something is gonna come up behind me and knock me off balance.
I like those too… as long as they don’t close too soon.
I don’t have a preference one way or the other, but revolving doors can be fun at times. Like the time my brother’s family was visiting and we took them to a restaurant that has a revolving door. He’s a healthy young adult, mind you, I would never do this to someone I didn’t know, and didn’t know could handle it. But he walked through it cockily with his hands behind his back instead of pushing. So I got in the section behind him and since there wasn’t anyone else in the door at that moment, I stopped it. I’m a very sweet older sister. 
I’m always puzzled at the people who use the regular door next to the revolving door during bad weather, at this place. Inevitably the hostesses have to post a sign on the regular door to beg the idiots not to use it and let the glacier in to freeze everyone in the front half of the restaurant. It has to be there, and unlocked, for handicapped access. But there are an awful lot of selfish people who don’t care about anyone else’s comfort.
I dislike revolving doors. I think it’s because if there’s someone else using the door at the same time, I’m worried that they’ll go too fast, and I’ll get injured somehow (though this has never actually happened.) Then there was the really awkward time I ended up in a door compartment with someone else.
Also, if you’re carrying multiple things, or something big and bulky like a larger clarinet case, it can be difficult to fit in a door compartment.
Given a choice, I always pick the non-revolving door. Though I use revolving doors if I have to. I’m not terrified of them or anything, I just don’t like them.