If you travel around by train in Germany, one of the things you notice after a while is that a lot of elevators have been erected over the past thirty years....to help people get from the surface area....to a train platform.
So I was watching RBB (Berlin public TV network) and this train elevator story popped up.
There's U-Bahn (subway) station in the Berlin region....Kreuzberg area, that had a brand-new elevator installed (probably took a year to complete the job).
Friday, they had a opening of the elevator.
Saturday afternoon.....fire department gets called. The elevator is stuck between the two floors.
This is the modern-look elevator (plexiglass, you can see the whole interior).
In the end, they had a whole squad of 14 rescue people there, and nothing seemed to work in resetting the elevator.
So....as you'd expect....they whacked the hell out of the plexiglass, and broke through the cabin where the two 'trapped' folks were standing.
The elevator? Well....it's down for 'service', and if you were asking me how long this will take.....it might be eight to twelve months.
The funny thing here? RBB gave the cost that the project (actually two elevators installed at this U-Bahn station), for roughly 3.5-million Euro.
This repair with the broken plexiglass? By the time you figure the cause of the no-movement and the plexiglass....with man-hours....it's probably up over a quarter-million in cost.
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