CHARLOTTETOWN — A major black mark on the downtown retail sector in Charlottetown today as Escalator Monthly Magazine named the Confederation Court Mall’s escalator as the worst escalator in Charlottetown.
Escalator Monthly Magazine — one of the top five publications that focus solely on moving stairs in Atlantic Canada — described the escalator system installed in the Confederation Court Mall as merely a passageway between a “faux-modernist basement” and “a post-industrial brutalist food court.”
“[Not] worth the drive to downtown Charlottetown,” spat the 8,000 word review. Furthermore, the review reduced the mechanism to “going up a flight of stairs with the convenience of not having to move your feet for several seconds.”
“The stair movement was sublime, and the view was divine,” sarcastically noted the anonymous reviewer.
The system is maintained by Fred Campbell, chief of maintenance for the downtown mall, who downplayed the review when reached for comment.
“Yeah, I guess it’s a big deal,” said Campbell. “Won’t change much though. Still works pretty good all things considered.”
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