People on the Straight Dope message board discuss it here.
There's no word for a fear of elevators (it's close to claustrophobia) but if you are - & I think I know a claustrophobic person who does not in fact ride elevators - here are some tips to help out.
(Snap a rubber band?)
Apparently being afraid of escalators has a name, & it's escalatophobia. These aren't quite tips, but here's a lot more information about escalatophobia.
Myself, I was always much more afraid of escalators than elevators. To this day, the first step is a deliberate one - after all, there's an evil, reverse side of the escalator that we can't see - but which, it always seems, is lit with evil green light. Isn't the light coming from the inside of an escalator always green? What is lit with green light?
Evil is.
The scariest escalators in the world are in Washington, D.C.'s subways system. Falling down this is not how I want to die:
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