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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil
I doubt they would use regular passenger elevator tech in something as advanced as this. Something along the lines of a mag-lev/vertical monorail type system would be ideal and could travel extremely fast. To go down just reverse the polarity 
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I'm not seeing anything on this regarding vertical service, but yes definitely if it were doable it appears that posted mag-lev speeds would drastically reduce the 20km lift/descent time by more than half.
Of course.. that top speed of mag-lev is pretty high, you wouldn't want brake failure causing you to, well, literally fly into orbit. You might rival
this guy for world freefall record.