Over looked factor - as an old cliff climber it is well known that going up
is always easier than going down. 95% of accidents happen after the climb up
and you are coming down. It's hard to see past your legs etc. With us alta
kakas our pot guts also.
Same thing with steps - of any config.
-- 
Jim Hicks
Quality Restoration Works, LLC
917-575-8545


> From: Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: The listserv where the buildings do the talking
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> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:05:53 -0700
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BP] stone steps
> 
> Just returned this hour from a relevant stone steps experience at an event
> at a historic church in
> downtown Victoria.   A great crowd of hundreds entered the church in a mass
> of humanity moving at once up the well worn and massively irregular 130 year
> old stone front steps.  There were no incidents even though most were old
> men (and women too, Ken).
> 
> When departing after the event, with the same mass of humanity moving all at
> once, I took a new side exit with new stone steps precisely built to the
> modern Code.   Near me, a lady tripped on them and was caught by her
> neighbours.   She exclaimed that her shoe caught on one of the steps.
> 
> So there!
> 
> Irregular good!
> Regular bad!
> 
> (Liability bad!)
> 
> According to this experiment, 100% more accidents happen on regular steps.
> 
> cp in be
> (always an observational scientist)
> 
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