A decision on the cliffside lift should be judged by what happens at the east cliff lift between the quarry road and the upper wards. The docket is at step 10 of the current review. Its latest entry reads: The docket has returned for review with the exceptions and unresolved objections attached. A rule that looks complete in the chamber can still leave the people who use it carrying an unmeasured cost.
36 completed lift runs were entered this cycle, compared with 33 in the prior file. That comparison matters because the public summary counts entries. The open question is how to keep the lift available to residents while its main rope is replaced.
A full closure is safer and shorter; a staged closure preserves access but leaves less time for a second inspection. The current record does not settle that disagreement. The objection deserves a direct answer, but it is not a reason to make the rule permanent before the affected residents can check the method.
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. The practical evidence is a wind bell on the upper landing that sounds when the lift is held for inspection; any new measure should record that condition beside the total.
The chamber should approve a limited trial with a published end date, a way to record exceptions and a named reviewer. The lift office will post a day-by-day access plan with the rope crew’s sign-off. That is the narrowest decision that can be defended from the evidence now available.
