The longest metro escalator has an even longer wait time

Some commuters in the D.C. area have to factor in the time it takes just to wait on an escalator to get to their train. But, that’s because it’s the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere, and it’s in Wheaton, Maryland.

Residents in the region have to wait roughly 2 minutes and 54 seconds when riding the escalator down to the platform of The Wheaton Metro station.

Metro said the station’s escalator is the longest in the system, measuring at a whopping 230 feet.

To give some perspective, it is a little more than half as long as the pyramid of Giza.

“Every time I take this escalator I have to get here five minutes early,” Jelani Blakey told WTOP as he was about to hop on.

Blakey had no idea the escalator holds the title of b

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