Why are stairs used more than slopes?

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Stairs are harder to walk, and higher risk of injury than slopes (imagine falling from stairs versus falling from slope).

So why aren’t slopes used more commonly in buildings?

Even stairs-shaped escalators are more common than slope-shaped escalators.

**Edit:** By “slopes”, I mean “ramps”. Pardon my English.

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To build a ramp at a safe and legal angle it would take up about 10 times the area to go up the same distance.

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