MIT Elevators

Elevators are often devices which lift and lower passengers from one floor of a building to another. At MIT, however, elevators sometimes transform into inert assemblies of cable and steel, whose job seems to be sitting motionless in elevator shafts for extended periods.

The purpose of this page is to log the downtime of MIT's elevators.

Building 16 -- Thursday 15 June 2006

• The left elevator in building 16 has been out of service for 2 days. MIT Facilities has received reports of the problem.
• Friday, 16 June: This elevator returned to operation.

Building 56 -- Friday 16 June 2006

• The left elevator was out of commmission for about two days.
• Friday, 16 June: This elevator returned to operation.

Building 66 -- Thursday 15 June 2006

The left elevator in building 66 has been out of service for 1 day.

Building 16 -- Tuesday 4 July 2006

The left elevator in building 16 is out of service.

Building 68 -- Wednesday 5 July 2006

The left elevator in buidling 68 is out of service.

NEWS FLASH: "Elevator E1 the passenger elevator at the south end of building 68 will be down until the end of September. We have learned that the parts that are needed will take 10 weeks to be delivered."

External Links

Optimal calculation and control of elevator wait time distributions