> Forced to climb 21 flights of stairs, There's plenty to be said about how we should incorporate more physical activity into our daily lives, by I think 21 flights of steps would be a turn around and go home moment for me. Unless of course I were a ghostbuster.
As far as I know, there is just one WMATA Metro station too deep escalators, the Forest Glen station on the Red Line. One day not long after it opened, the elevators were all out of service, and passengers were allowed the choice of walking the stairs or of continuing on to Wheaton. I walked the stairs, which then wasn't that bad (I was in my early forties). But the stairs and rails were impressively dusty.