moving walkway

English

Parisian subway's moving walkway

Noun

moving walkway (plural moving walkways)

1. (US) A slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 110–111:

     The slope [at Bank station, Waterloo & City] was always resented, especially on Monday morning, and it was supplemented by the installation of the Underground's first Trav-o-lator - or moving walkway - in 1960.

   • 2022 November 16, “Network News: Bank's moving walkways open”, in RAIL, number 970, page 12:

     Interim London Transport Commissioner Andy Lord and Transport for London Chief Capital Officer Stuart Harvey opened two new 100-metre moving walkways and three new escalators connectting the Northern and Central lines at Bank station on October 28.

Synonyms

• travelator (UK), moving sidewalk (US), moving pavement, walkalator

Related terms

• escalator

Translations

slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電動步道／电动步道 (diàndòng bùdào)

• Danish: rullende fortov c
• Finnish: liukukäytävä
• French: tapis roulant (fr)
• German: Fahrsteig m, Rollsteig m, Laufband (de) n
• Italian: nastro trasportatore
• Japanese: 動く歩道 (ugoku hodō)
• Polish: ruchomy chodnik (pl) m
• Spanish: camino rodante m, pasillo rodante m, cinta transportadora f, cinta desplazadora f, acera móvil f, acera mecánica f, pasarela mecánica f