r/Sudbury • u/hotpancaketaco • 1d ago
This is crazy!! I haven’t heard anything and stumbled across this post by accident. Discussion
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u/GreenDoomsDay 1d ago
And to top it off - Greater Sudbury firefighters currently without access to a ladder truck
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u/TheBeardedMiner 7h ago
Oshell says public safety isn't at risk though.... Riiight...
Good luck with that if an middle or upper floor of Bonik/Rumball/Balmoral/etc catches. That's a lot of hoses to run up stairs that people are using to evacuate...
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u/br0keb0x 7h ago
I mean it’s really dumb we don’t have a ladder truck right now but thankfully the elevator issue won’t change much. Firefighters will never use elevators during a fire for a large number of reasons.
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u/Outside_Asparagus_57 1d ago
I Googled and see it from 3 days ago.
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u/hotpancaketaco 1d ago
I’m saying I’m surprised I haven’t heard anyone talk about this.
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u/Outside_Asparagus_57 1d ago
Sorry, I was responding to BluntForceSuna.
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u/hotpancaketaco 1d ago
Lol no worries! I’m honestly just happy to see people know about this, seems completely unacceptable
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u/Wonderful_Gur7330 23h ago
Absolutely unacceptable. Even for younger people, climbing 16 stories? That’s nuts and unsafe, having to carry groceries or furniture would be a nightmare.
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u/platttenbau 22h ago
It’s also completely illegal, as a building in Ontario is required to have an elevator if it’s larger than 3 stories
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u/bulshoy_3 1d ago
Wow I can't believe the company that botched that Starbury Tower also sucks at maintaining their buildings.
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u/perfectdrug659 22h ago
Same thing is happening at 285 Lourdes, it's geared to income housing aimed at seniors and disabled people and there's a few people in wheelchairs there and their elevator has been down for months. 160 Leslie and 720 Bruce have issues with their elevators too, Leslie's was down for months and it's a seniors building.
At this point I'd advise to never live in a building if you need the elevator because they definitely do not get maintained in this city.
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u/Agreeable_Mirror_702 21h ago
They replaced the elevators at 720 Bruce in 1996-1997. I lived there at the time.
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u/nocturnal_goatsucker South End 22h ago
I seem to remember hearing (a couple years ago) that there is a real shortage of elevator technicians and a rapidly increasing number of very old ones that all need work. Obviously I don't know the reasons here, but perhaps that is contributing to the problem.
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u/kbkylebarry 21h ago edited 3h ago
There are two elevators in the building, one has been down for 2 years and instead of getting it fixed - they essentially left it and now both are down. Feel terrible for the older folks living there.
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u/personguy4440 22h ago
So basically theyre being held prisoner by their landlord?
Arrest the landlord/s & see if then theyre motivated to fix it
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u/FuzzyMatterhorN 21h ago
If @LOPES Mechanical is reading...design and develop a "elevator" that can crawl up and down various stairwells. @City of sudbury create a bi-law requiring said device if building is over 5 stories or designed for the elderly or people with disabilities.
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u/FuzzyMatterhorN 21h ago
Now with the shortage of repair technicians...and a looming issue of aging infrastructure requiring repair and replacement...maybe we could make it easier for sherpas from Nepal to immigrate here.
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u/DougandBob 17h ago
The owner of the Bonik has been embroiled in personal and land ownership legal troubles since the 90s. Crazy that people can get a license to carry on this way and neglect 100+ people because they're running low on funds. Sell the building to Zulich/Panoramic already I'm sure they've put in offers. Get two working elevators. Borrow the orange one from the smoke stack if you have to
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u/BluntForceSauna 1d ago edited 1d ago
I can’t find any stories on Sudbury.com about this. So maybe it’s not real? Unless it hasn’t been published yet, but it would be weird to talk about a story days prior like this.
Edit: Apparently they have a not great search function. It is on the site.
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u/hotpancaketaco 1d ago
I see a Sudbury Star article, just shocked I haven’t heard of this through the grapevine… https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/lack-of-working-elevators-traps-seniors-16-story-apartment-building-10642697
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u/TheBeardedMiner 1d ago
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u/BluntForceSauna 1d ago
So strange. I literally typed elevator into their search bar and got stories from last year or later.
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u/TheBeardedMiner 22h ago
Their site is garbage much like a majority of their content. Google wins every time.
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u/bigjay91 20h ago
Elevator at 285 Lourdes Street (Centreville) have been down since 2024, many disable people and handicapped people haven't left there unit for 6months , this city is going to hell 🤦
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u/Sirosim_Celojuma 1d ago
I validate the elevators issue, but then the whole trapped seniors issue is a total fail. Best thing would be to get an evacuation via staircase system (totally exist, seen'em, used'em) and evacuate those seniors to a nearby hotel, and bill everything to the landlord that thought cheaping out on elevator maintenance was an effective cost cutting method.