Escalating Anger

On my way to work I usually walk past the John Hancock building and sit on a bench in the park for a bit before I have to head in to work. I usually sit there because generally, there is something interesting, exciting or drama-filled going on there. Homeless people yelling at each other, tourists looking confused and the odd-looking Bostonians set the scene in that area.
I usually enter the Copley shops using the Westin entrance. There is an escalator that is only wide enough to fit one person, and on a good day I can walk right up the escalator. On a bad day however, some lazy beast that can’t find the energy to walk up a flight of moving stairs halts my hike up the escalator! Why is it that people stop walking once they hit the escalator? Was not the point of an escalator to accelerate one's trip up a flight of stairs? It was an idea by an urban planner who thought that decreasing one's time on stairs would help the flow of transportation better. Instead, what we have is an urban disaster created fueled by laziness and the general opinion of "saving one's energy." For what? Eating, and riding escalators.
People need to start walking up escalators and using them in the way in which they were intended to be used. One can walk up a flight of stairs faster than an escalator brings you up, so why not walk up the escalator? Even if you feel the need to stand, at least keep to the right and avoid being scoffed at by informed escalator riders.