Current Affairs Central European paternoster lift threatened with extinction
The sentence has fallen like an axe: from 2003 on, the bizarre and rather scary open-doored lift - the paternoster- will disappear from old office buildings across Central Europe. The paternoster, which has been moving Central Europeans from one floor to the next for decades, must be removed from Czech buildings because it doesn't meet European safety requirements. The problem? They don't have any doors. Beatrice Cady has the details.
Czech Radio's paternoster in action!!! Click to enlarge
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