Meridian Tower has sixty-eight floors. A building services memo instructs that reports of additional stops are to be filed as lift faults, and attributes a vibration at 03:00 to settling. A maintenance note on the same memo says an inspection cable reached its limit before the car reached the bottom, asks for a longer reel, and says not to send anyone down in the car.
The lift sign
A sign on the lift reads OUT OF SERVICE. Beneath it, in pen, someone has written that it goes to floors that are not listed anymore. Another hand records taking it to sixty-one and seeing the whole city dark, with the sweep coming in off the river like a curtain.
See also
Records cited
- The Floors Go Down and Floor Sixty-One, recovered fragments (Beyond Dawn)