Posted by Leonard Steinberg on July 18th, 2013

Mayor Bloomberg is encouraging New Yorkers to take the stairs by introducing new legislation to make stairs a more approachable alternative to taking the elevator.  He said he would introduce legislation forcing new buildings and those undergoing major renovations to make it easier to walk up and down between floors, requiring that newly constructed stairways be equipped with glass doors to make them more appealing.

I endorse this 100%: From personal experience working in a building with the slowest elevators on earth, and a single tenant that occupies four different floors in the building that leads employees using the elevators to get from floor to floor all day long therefore keeping other tenants waiting endlessly, using the stairs would be the perfect alternative. The biggest issue preventing me from doing so is the mechanicals that do not allow door access when using the stairs. This new building code would change that and make stairs a possibility. For those who don’t get the hint, signs would be posted near elevators encouraging people to skip the free ride and head to the stairs.

Already New Yorkers are outraged that the Mayor would suggest something that could improve their health: HOW DARE HE!!!! I guess there is a group of idiotic New Yorkers who would much rather have New Yorkers continue to get fatter and less fit in the hopes of driving healthcare costs up just a bit more. These are the same people who do not believe in evolution either I guess. My Dad always used the stairs and lived to be 89…..smaller (or no) sodas, walking more, stairs, bicycles, trees, hybrid cars, busses and cabs: I say bring it on!