Comments on: Empty Moving Sidewalks

By: Tito Nunez

Tito Nunez — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:51:36 +0000

I work at sky harbor, and after walking 8 miles up and down those concourses all day, those “moving sidewalks” are awesome. Your correct on the energy consumption of these never stopping monsters, but, at the airport theres times when everything is quiet. This time is know as the rest period, the runways clear up to switch landing and takeoff locations, this only takes about 10 minutes. So not much can be done about the problem.

By: Joe Franklin

Joe Franklin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:09:50 +0000

I think that’s a great idea, though I, too, would wonder how hard that would be on the machinery.

By: Dan Hawthorne

Dan Hawthorne — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:47:08 +0000

I’ve seen at least one place with the motion sensors that you talked about and I would think that it would make it a lot more energy efficient. But, I do wonder if it would be harder on the machinery, with all of the stopping and starting…