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I wish that when elevators were built, they would build a spiral slide for those descending next to it. That would instantly reduce the traffic by about half considering that I believe most people would opt for the slide.

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Sounds fun, so long as you're ok going all the way to the bottom, not just a lower floor :)

I think it's fair to say that in the vast, vast majority of multi-story buildings, people are only really be interested in visiting a single story (for their destination) and maybe the basement (for parking). The exception is shopping centers, which use escalators or stairs for most traffic rather than elevators.

So you'd need a ton of space for N number of slides exiting at the ground floor, where N is the total number of floors.

Unless people can enter mid slide somehow without affecting the journey of other sliders :P

Air guns at each floor. It will be great

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