There’s a saying: you could finish a whole book while riding the escalators of the Arsenalna metro station. I’ve been there, and I agree! It takes a solid 5–7 minutes to ride the nearly endless, smooth, and calm escalators up from the (almost) deepest station in the world.
Arsenalna would often feel hot in the summer, but it’s nothing in comparison to a city like Mediterranean Barcelona. Its metro this July was scorching.
Barcelona’s Plaça de Catalunya station is quite deep underground, too.
Unlike Arsenalna, it has over ten short, disjointed escalators to get to the bottom. The whole process often causes nausea and crowding at the elevators that are supposed to be reserved for disabled persons. But, temperature-wise, using these escalators to get to the station feels like you’re descending to the 9th circle of hell.
Barcelona Metro (source)
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