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What do you call four people trapped in an elevator?
By adamg on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 8:56am
Sixth item down, they were trapped for an hour inside 150 Boylston St.
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Some things never change
These stories remind me of twelve to fifteen years ago, when I was a student there and they still owned buildings in the Back Bay. Did they take the old Charlesgate elevator with them when they moved?
Was that at 1140 Boylston?
Berkee owns it now, and they recently closed the elevator for renovation. They hit some unexpected snags (shocking!), and finally reopened the elevator... after TWO YEARS.
I didn't make the Emerson-elevator connection till just now.
jeez, I go to a small back
jeez, I go to a small back bay school and our elevator used to get stuck all the time, something with the sensors would get confused and not open the doors more then an inch. It happened so often one of our instructors actually had the students hand work through the crack in the door and continued to have class.
The deal is...
Big liability problem if someone is trapped in elevator and dies from medical condition or smoke inhalation.
Still, that's a possible future multi-million payout that might be covered by insurance, compared to definite immediate expenditure for repairing or replacing elevators with known problems.
Too bad the school year is winding down. A student paper might make a nuisance of itself, investigating why the problems persist.
Deal is, the Ansin Building
Deal is, the Ansin Building (which is where all of these seem to have occurred and where I go to class) has godawful elevators. There's some weird priority system that will bring an elevator down to the second floor and then send it swooping back up to the eleventh while people on the first wait for one from the very top to pokily work its way down. I literally budget ten minutes for the elevators before my class.