On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:56:24 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

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,


Assuming that there is nothing within reach that can be touched and
that clearance can be assured at all times in the future.

instead of this cuboid

A box performs that function in all directions.

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.