OTIS Escalators @ Menlo Park Mall (Center Court), Edison, NJ + Elevator Modernization Update

HAPPY ESCALATOR MONDAY! This mall has one of the strangest escalator layouts I've seen. In the center court, the up escalator is on one side, and the down escalator is on the other. In order to film both escalators in the same video, I had to walk through the center court (where mall security is almost always present) and right past the SIMON Guest Services desk. Since this is a SIMON mall, doing just that is taking a BIG risk of being thrown out for videotaping, so I brought out the iPod Touch 4th Generation to do the job of filming it all. After all, the iPod looks nothing like a camera, and, as expected, no one at SIMON Guest Services or security recognized it as one. Plus, I got a look at the progress of the modernization of the glass elevator by KONE, and it looks like a holeless hydraulic system might be going in rather than an EcoDisc MRL Traction system like I had expected. No surprise there, since SIMON Malls is a VERY cheap company and takes TERRIBLE care of their elevators, usually either going the cheapest route when repairs are needed, or not repairing problems at all (an example would be the escalators in front of Nordstrom at this mall, which are usually broken). I really don't see why the modernization was needed, but it looks like the elevator is now going to serve the basement for whatever reason, and a mod would be needed for it to be able to serve the basement. I have no clue what's going into the basement, but whatever it is, it seems SIMON was too cheap to install a new separate elevator, which is no surprise.

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[elevatorman138]

Well I used a iPad to film and go yelled at for setting!!!!!!!! it was a GGP

[an65001]

Told y'all it will be ha holeless. :-)

[NewEnglandElevators]

They're STILL advertising for the movie Rio? Appears from the ad at the end of the escalators, they are getting ready to make the DVD release of it (good film, actually).

As for the elevator, it would be nice if it was an MRL product.