Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators
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The Escalators Are Like Music
The farragut north metro station in washington, D.C., has one of the loudest escalators on the city's public transport system. The sound is caused by a plastic element that keeps each step from rubbing against the midal siding when it gets too dry. We understand that we coun be over romanticizing a scrogging and squeaking escalator. And at columbia heights, an aviary of chrone throated ravens taunting you as you descend into or worked a.
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