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In the 1930's, there was at least one lawsuit in the USA after someone got heart on an escalator in the 1930's. What would the effects be, if insurance costs and/pr laws made escalators de facto banned in the USA, or even in some major cities like Boston and New York? Not major game changers, but I could see that hurting downtowns, since multi-level stores will have a built-in limit on the flow of customers to upper levels.

Not something I'm planning on running with, since The Masquerade is consuming all my writing time, but something that someone might find fun to run with, as either a POD or a feature of a timeline with an earlier POD.
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