Originally Posted by CDSmith

Mo you're on fire in this thread. 10 hours of elevator music... too funny.

But this got me curious... just how long a vertical bus ride would it be? 20 km = 65,616 ft. Now, the express elevator at 1 World Trade Center travels at 2000 feet per minute, and 20 of the other 66 elevators travel at 1800 feet/min. Other tall structures report elevators travelling at 1600 ft/min, while Taipei 101 in Taiwan, currently the tallest completed building in the world, is believed to have the fastest elevators, traveling at 3,314 feet a minute.

So at 2000 ft/minute it would actually take 32.8 minutes to reach the top.

If they went with one of the fastest, say 3000 ft/min, the ride time is down to just under 22 minutes.


We're gonna need more elevator music.