The last week or so I have been heads-down doing serious final work on the next book. That means hours and hours spent up in the seventh floor of the VPL Central Library. I love being there, but getting upstairs is becoming a genuine pain.
There are two public elevators serving the seven floors of the library. One of the elevators has been out of service for three weeks — THREE WEEKS! I was told today that the staff elevator was also broken. So two out of the three elevators servicing seven floors are not available.
This morning, I waited the usual three or four minutes for the one elevator to get back to the main floor. It was packed, of course. We stopped at each floor — a milk run! — until we got to the sixth floor at which point the up arrow turned down and we returned to the main floor without visiting the floor I needed. In the end, it took me nine minutes to get from the main floor to the seventh.
How can anyone think that is acceptable for a major public building in a world-class city like Vancouver? It is not! Doesn’t the City have proper maintenance budgets for this?
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