Decades ago a law called “Murphy’s law” was established. The content is as simple as it is obvious: What can go wrong will go wrong. It is therefore only logical that the elevator does not work exactly when it is needed most. All those steps to walk? Oh no, it’s rare that a failure threatens to be as funny as it once was when you were a student when you got stuck in the elevator late at night. There was probably one too many fellow students in the locker room. Luckily there was also enough to drink.
No, as a rule a broken elevator is a cause for frustration. Many people depend on its functioning if they want to get from A to B in everyday life. And so it’s no surprise when a defective elevator not only results in frustration, but also reports. For example in Lindau-Reutin. The online portal noted in October Swabianthat one of the elevators at the station had been broken for weeks – which led, among other things, to “bizarre scenes” in which several people carried a single person in a wheelchair up or down the stairs to the platform. Finally someone came to repair it. It just didn’t help: ten days later, according to them Swabianthe thing was gone again.
Now the large number of train stations and therefore station elevators mean that one of them is always broken. However, the realization that others don’t have it any better doesn’t help much when climbing stairs. In Berlin, for example, a brand new elevator went into operation at the Schlesisches Tor in the summer. On the first day he drove wonderfully. On the second day the fire brigade came because people were stuck inside. It was not noted whether they were students who enjoyed drinking. Hey, it’s Berlin too.
In Lindau-Reutin, on the other hand, the elevators now seem to be working properly again. At least that’s what the built-in sensors report. “Outside platform, track 21: in operation,” you can read it online at Deutsche Bahn. The same applies to the colleague on the “central platform, tracks 22-24”. But should you as a traveler rely on it? Sensors can also fail after all. And “Murphy’s law” applies forever.