Sentence examples for vertical transportation from inspiring English sources

The vertical transportation never works well.

The electric-powered elevator provided vertical transportation, but other environmental technologies were still fairly simple.

And we put our vertical transportation — the escalators — on the ends, so shoppers have to make the full loop".

It was the complexity of integrating various computerized systems in the stations, and the vexing nature of vertical transportation: that is, the elevators and escalators.

A few weeks would have changed the destiny of Francis Riccardelli, who had been the manager of vertical transportation, the elevators and escalators.

Paumgarten writes, "While anthems have been written to jet travel, locomotives, and the lure of the open road, the poetry of vertical transportation is scant.

The Governor, in weekly meetings, went around the room grilling the vertical-transportation contractors.

Vertical-transportation enthusiasts often remind us that elevators enable height, and therefore density, and therefore energy efficiency and cultural ferment — urbanity itself.

A vertical-transportation axiom states that if an elevator is in trouble the safest place to be is inside the elevator.

The city's keenest vertical-transportation enthusiast may be Patrick Carr, who has spent sixty-one years in the elevator trade — as a repairman, a manufacturer, a consultant, and an expert witness.

Ask a vertical-transportation-industry professional to recall an episode of an elevator in free fall the cab plummeting in the shaftway, frayed rope ends trailing in the dark and he will say that he can think of only one.