On Saturday, 9 March 2019 12:43:55 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 8 March 2019 13:55:06 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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whisky-dave wrote:
Good grief. The idea is you only stop the lift if it is going in your
direction.

How do you know which direction the lift is going it's in a shaft ?

Even you can't be that stupid? But perhaps you can.

When the lift was upgraded a few years ago they did install an arrow
display to show which direction and which was the next floor.

Why does that matter? The lift will stop at your floor if going in your
direction. Or the next time it gets to it, again going in your direction.

But previously there was no way of telling where the lift was or in which direction it was going unless you were in it.


Teh option was to just get in (with the trolly) and see what happens.

And waste the time of others in the lift. Good call, that.

yes it was becausxe originally the lift was for staff only studetns weren't supose to use it. Years ago it was key operated.
But in the early 80s the HoD decided that all lifts should be open for student use. Previously very few studetns used that stairwell, it was mostly for emergency only exit as it really didnlt go anywhere else of use to the students.
But during our refurb it was teh ONLY exit/entrance they could use as the other entrance was blocked off to install a bnew stairwell, so it was busy with students.