POST 044 · PRIMITIVE REDUCTION

Elevators are bandwidth, not boxes.

An elevator isn't a room — it's throughput. Change the floors, residents, or elevator count. Watch wait times spike when you've underprovisioned the bandwidth. The elevator is a network capacity problem.
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Elevator Shafts
Peak wait time
Trips/hr capacity
Utilization
Cost/yr
You don't need more elevators. You need more bandwidth. The question is trips-per-hour, not shafts.