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Daily life within the walls of SFU's award winning Surrey campus tends to be pretty linear and without disruption. People usually get along fine with their day to day classes and activities when they are here. There is however a constant interruption to this common quietness; the interruption being the escalators from the second to third floor and how they are consistently broken. It seems to be just about every week that the escalators, or at least the ‘up’ escalator (which is the more important one), are broken in some way. I understand that problems occur and things malfunction, but the problem I have is that the “closed for maintenance” signs are put up as soon as the escalator stops moving. Do the people that put up the signs not realize the beauty of escalators? When they break, they revert back to their original precursors – stairs. This inconvenience of blocking off the escalators is slight and relatively unimportant, but why cause any inconvenience at all when it can be avoided? I would suggest that the people who are in charge of putting up the signs not do so unless the escalator is physically unable to be walked on or if it presents a hazard to people. This way, students and staff would be able to use the escalator as plain old stairs (just like every other building that boasts an escalator does) and not be inconvenienced by the complete closure of that path of travel.