Start with the lift’s rope-change log and its passenger closure notices. It is the source used to make a decision about how to keep the lift available to residents while its main rope is replaced; it is not the decision itself. The rule only works if the source describes the conditions at the east cliff lift between the quarry road and the upper wards.
The latest count is 59 completed lift runs; the prior file listed 60. A second set of hands has checked the count and recorded where the methods differ. The difference is a signal to check, not a verdict about who is right.
The disputed point is practical: A full closure is safer and shorter; a staged closure preserves access but leaves less time for a second inspection. One side relies on the posted total, while the other points to a wind bell on the upper landing that sounds when the lift is held for inspection.
The risk of reading the file too broadly is that an entry becomes a conclusion. Tavi Orr checked the lift’s rope-change log and its passenger closure notices against the field notes. The method is to trace a system from its control gate to the last household it is meant to serve; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
Next: The lift office will post a day-by-day access plan with the rope crew’s sign-off. A useful update will publish the method, exceptions and review date with the number.
