[97attendees] Please make use of the glass elevators

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Mon, 14 November 2016 12:24 UTC

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Subject: [97attendees] Please make use of the glass elevators
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As in many previous meetings that involve particularly tall buildings, 
those of us staying in the Conrad will frequently find ourselves 
stranded some 20 floors above the meeting we need to be in, waiting 
several minutes for an elevator to show up. Some of this is a simple 
traffic flow problem, but some of it appears to stem from people not 
noticing a critical and useful feature of this hotel.

There are six elevators that service the guest room floors, allowing 
people who stay here to get from their rooms to the meetings and vice-versa.

Perpendicular to the guest-room elevator bank, there are four nice, 
large glass elevators that service only the public (non-guest-room) 
levels of the hotel. On a casual observation, it would appear that these 
glass elevators are going largely unused, with most people choosing to 
use the guest-floor elevators to traverse among pubic floors.

I would propose that we could ameliorate the extremely long waits to get 
down from guest floors if people were to generally favor the glass 
elevators unless they are going to a guest floor. As a bonus, since you 
won't be competing with people trying to get to and from their hotel 
rooms, you'll probably get where you're going faster also.

/a