06-30-2021, 06:47 PM
(06-30-2021, 09:02 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: While the box or stairs for humans can be exposed to the elements, AFAIK the machine rooms for elevators and escalators must be safe from the elements and heated in this climate. But I'm not an "elevator consultant" so perhaps it's possible and just uncommon.
I believe the O-Train in Ottawa has a more-or-less non-climate-controlled elevator at the Carling station. I can’t speak to the arrangements made for the machinery — for all I know, it might be arranged so that they actually are temperature-controlled. But my recollection is that the elevator cab is not heated.
As to escalators, they can be outdoors but I don’t think it’s a reasonable thing to do. When in San Diego once I had the strange experience of riding an escalator in a shopping mall; but since it was San Diego the place was not fully enclosed (OK, fair, especially in their climate), but due to some architectural choice, some of the areas where there was no roof was above the escalator. So I got rained on while riding the escalator, which is just dumb. Also the security office had water pouring across the floor from the rain.