Click Here to download ERS-2009-12-30 #186

Happy New Year! Fewer news stories on the show today as we end the year. I’ve got to do a year in review show. I say that every year but forget about it until December. That will be my new year’s resolution for 2010.  Today on the show we’re giving away some more hard cold cash plus some great goodies from the following companies. Looking back it’s been a fun year. Have fun celebrating the end of a decade!

Thanks to the following companies who have donated goodies to our end of the month prize pack! Fujitec America, GAL, The National Association of Elevator Contractors, The National Association of Elevator Safety Authorities, The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation, COMPANY SRL, Peelle, C.J. Anderson, Truxes, EMS Group, Elevator Bob’s Elevator Pictures, Minnesota Elevator, ElevatorGear.com, ElevatorShack.com, ElevatorU.org, Elevator World Magazine, Elevator Cab Renovations & The Elevator Preservation Blog.

News Links:
Access issues trip up stairs project, St. Paul MN
Commission approves elevator for clerk office
Idiot takes video of elevator prank
Courthouse to close for three days
Dana Point’s Beach elevator open this weekend
There are crazier people out there than me
Elevator down at complex for elderly despite $5 million in stimulus
Giving Metro escalator a rest could curtail failures
Happy Holidays From EW, fun game link too
Hey Metra, fix my elevator
Teen who fell over escalator, still in coma
Cool Old C.J. Anderson elevator equipment on Flickr
Basically the biggest elevator in the world….
NY Lawsuit: Disabled woman must slide down stairs
Teen in hospital after fall from railing
Are broken elevators against the law…interesting
Short and Sweet elevator update
EU Forum Back Online!
Delhi Metro Rail Website teaches how to ride escalator
Is there a chance of surviving in an elevator during a tornado
Lowville Academy project falls behind schedule
New CTA Elevators to go into service
Parents must use caution with kids on escalators
School urged to install elevator
Toddler slips out of grandfather’s arms, dies
Stuck in elevator and missed flight….
SearchMedia Holdings Limited announces repurchase program

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Click Here to download ERS-2009-12-23 #185

Happy Holiday’s everyone! It’s going to be a white Christmas here in Chicago which makes it nice and festive! The next three days are going to be filled with family, food and fun….I can’t wait for Sunday to roll around when I can rest. The show today is a bit shorter than normal. There were two accidents in the news this week; one that involved a 4 year old getting caught in an escalator and the other a child too who his hand had caught in closing doors. Again, common sense not always prevails. Support the EESF.org today. Next week we’ve got our prize pack give away and the last show of the year and decade! (Pictured is an LCD device intended to help a person choose stairs over elevators to loose weight. Perhaps they’ll make something like this for a pizza box too!)

News Links:
1890’s Elevator Sign For Sale
4-Year Old Caught in Freak Escalator Accident – Support the EESF!
Adding an elevator to your home video
Eye Contact
TKE awarded one year contract in Canada
City Hall project finally under construction
Elevator busted at Section 8 housing unit
Elevator ride
Elevator expert needed for accident reconstruction position
Ever been stuck in an elevator?
Wittson Hall Elevator Down
Metro outlines service cuts for current year
More YouTube videos from the Space Elevator Games
Ted presents at the EuroSpaceward Conference
New elevator for Cominco Gym
PAR Systems acquires American Heavy
Elevator Blog Post, Interesting
Riding Rules for CTA escalator
Schindler acquires Saudi Elevator
Seniors lose patience over broken elevator
Wheelchair Stair Lifts
The humble, essential and safe elevator
Antique Single Person Elevator Cab for sale
Scary elevator ride story
Escalator fire at NYC’s Macy’s store
Man injured when grenade goes off in elevator
MediaCorp provides content for new advertising space
Train and Elevator Doors, be careful
United Technologies: Profit from the global economic recovery
Alice and Fraser Rec Center may be getting an elevator
Health Nudge, Elevators vs. Stairs

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Click Here to download ERS-2009-12-09 #183

It’s official, the Elevator Radio Show turns four years old today! After 183 shows and the support from all of you out there, we’re ready for many more shows to come. On the program today I’ll talk about how many downloads and a little about the demographics of our audience. Never in a million years did I ever think that this show would grow to the size it is and I’m glad that it brings useful information to you each week. Lots of stories on the program today in addition to the show recap so always, thanks for tuning in everyone!

News Links:
Ames elevators where man died trap
Apparent elevator pranksters require fire department rescue
Authorities find Mexico-U.S. Tunnel with lighting, ventilation and elevator
$30M Lawsuit imminent in S.F. elevator death case
San Jose Convention Center Plans may get axed
eCab Elevator Posts about elevator safety
Elevator prank can be deadly
Ted heads to Luxembourg for EuroSpaceward Conference
Space Elevator feasibility in 1990
Lawyer admits notions of foul play farfetched in elevator death
It’s not safe down here either
Lawyer in elevator death case now certain he’s sued the wrong people
Mall shopper falls down escalator
Cape Town man crushed to death while repairing elevator  
Mandated updates approaching for schools
Mt. Hood Museum elevator addition
No bomb found at West Palm Beach Elevator Company
No steps escalator
Obey the rules?
Pawlet voters nix $50k elevator plan
The big mistake, must be tough I tell you
Tired residents thrilled elevator is working again
Tube safety standards at “dangerous levels”, says union
Watch your kids when on an escalator
Car plunges on escalator, two killed
Jersey City municipal employees brace for furloughs
KONE earns recognition for sustainability practices
New Orleans raises fees for permits, brake tags
Virgin Mobile Funny Commercial
Otis and the Elevator
Otis Subsidiary to provide more than a thousand elevators in Singapore
TTC traumatic with 2 kids stroller and lots of stairs

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Click Here to download ERS-2009-10-14 #176

 Another busy week at work as our shop has the flu bug going around which means double duty for a few of us here so remember to wash your hand’s everyone and as often as possible. I’m pretty sure that I’m catching it as well as I’m tired and feel the onslaught of being tired and having a sore throat. Another week filled with article’s everyone. You’ll enjoy the one written by Jim Collet, from Elevator Man Stories. I think it’s important to remember those who we worked with who may have passed on. Jim does an excellent job at doing this.  Also on the program today a story covering what I believe to be the worst elevator mine accident I’ve every read about, in which 26 miners in China where killed.  All I can say I’m glad that I live in the USA where codes and regulations are there to protect workers and the general public. (Pictured: Forty-one Cooper Square, in NY,  is being developed so that the elevator only stops at floors 1, 5 and 8. With the intent to make students use the stairs more often. I suspect a lawsuit addressing ADA will soon be in the news.)

News Links:
A Different Kind of Larry
7 Sickened Near OC Federal Building Elevator
A sheltered life by design, without TV on the elevator
Space Elevator Official Poster
Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher?
Chinese mine elevator plunges workers to their deaths
Fulton Public Library’s elevator project continues
Half Baked Idea – Liquid Only Counterweight for Elevator, no motor required….
Hospitals, Healthcare Providers award bid to Otis
Alliance Elevator Consultants – What’s that grinding noise?
JIA’s central corridor getting $9 million makeover
Can you change the direction of an escalator without a key?
Project to take elevator down
Shabbat Elevator ban is height of controversy
Camden to reopen escalator station
The big exercise boost
Boarding the Chinese Economic Elevator
Elevators being installed in more homes  
Hydraulic Residential Elevator
Space Elevator Games are on!
Jobs for Filipino Elevator Project Manager Abroad
Space Elevator and Lunar Industrialization Conference set for December
Student Ignites Elevator Door
This would keep people off the escalators!  
Crazy building with crazier elevator service
Freight Elevators now allow bicycles on them in NY  - Bike Access Law?
Student Ignites Elevator Door
Escalator mishap injures 13 people at Blues Game  
How to avoid catching the swine flu

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