Apparently the visitors to DC for the Inauguration are having problems with the escalators:

[Are_grits_groceries]

“@mwiik:
Visitors on DC metro escalators: when you stand on the left, you stand with Hitler. cc @anamariecox”

Ha!
(I'll say this, those are some big effing escalators)

[pinboy3niner]

1. These little things?

[nc4bo]

2. Stay alert SS, stay alert.

With the good, come the bad and some nutters can't be far behind.

[hobbit709]

3. Some people are so stupid it makes you wonder how they lived this long without forgetting to breathe

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. That is a classic...its worse during the tourist seasons and events

During the work week you can expect to be run over if you stand on the left.

[MineralMan]

5. That's why there are signs at airports for their

moving walkways, telling people to keep right if they're standing, and keep left if walking. Don't they have such signs on the escalators in DC?

Expecting people to automatically understand such things is expecting too much. People need directions when they come to unfamiliar places.

[Chathamization]

6. No, because

apparently the official position of WMATA is that it's best for people to stand on the escalators (and there are limits as to what signs can be near escalators).