In message , at 15:36:27 on Sat, 14 Nov
2015, Basil Jet remarked:
The lift is ridiculously over-engineered. A platform with shoulder
height gates would have done the job, instead of this cuboid with
electronic displays all over it and lights in the ceiling. Lifts are
cuboids because if something snaps, you don't want it crashing down on
the heads of the people. There is nothing above an inclinator to snap
and land on people, so no roof necessary, and no lights required
either. Typical public sector largesse... no private company would have
done this.

Earlier this year I went in one of the scariest lifts I've encountered
for a long time. It consisted only of a floor which went up and down
inside a lined square tube; rather slowly. The lack of a roof, in
particular, gave me very bad vertigo, even at ground level.
--
Roland Perry