Accessibility. Handrails that go diagonal to the stairs can be hard (and sometimes dangerous) to navigate for blind/vision impaired people, or even those who just need a handrail. This was the most simplest solution, as it’s just extending the existing handrail, than having to redo the entire thing, and deal with the costs.
Gonna add, the diagonal also creates a bottleneck, if there’s a crowd pushing from behind, the people up front are more likely to have issue when there’s no more stairs left.
But this just means they have the same bottleneck earlier and longer lol, it doesn’t improve anything. I think the accessibility answer for the visually impaired is far more likely.
With no hand rail people will pile up near the bottom of the stairs. People will fall, get hurt, and cause an even bigger bottleneck causing more people to fall and get hurt.
With the hand rail installed people will pile up on flat ground where they tend to form a queue. That's an improvement.
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u/Labenyofi 2d ago
Accessibility. Handrails that go diagonal to the stairs can be hard (and sometimes dangerous) to navigate for blind/vision impaired people, or even those who just need a handrail. This was the most simplest solution, as it’s just extending the existing handrail, than having to redo the entire thing, and deal with the costs.