Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city
by WalterBright on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:44PM
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I used to work on the 8th floor of an office building. I took the stairs. Granted, I was the only one, and 23 is 3x that. I'd still probably take the stairs and thereby skip the jogging. I'd also prefer the stairs to a long walk everywhere.
I live 270 ft up a hill, and regularly walk up. At 10 feet per story, that's 27 floors. I'm also the only one on the hill who walks up it.
Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city
by jessaustin on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:43PM
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Wow there must be some vacancies in that building. When I've worked in similarly-sized buildings with full offices, the wait for the elevator was such that no one would have considered using it to descend 5 floors. Most people would have taken the stairs ascending as well.
I'd guess very few -- I work in a 23 story office building (on the 20th floor, coindidentally), and from my desk I can see the stairway door in the hallway.
Other than maintenance staff, I don't remember seeing a single person use that door. We have another office on the 15th floor, and I know of no one that uses the stairs to travel the 5 floors from office to office.
So I think the number of people that want to climb 20 stories by stairs every day is very low.