Yes, each compartment
should cater a single or few
individual.
if engineered correctly,
much more safer than the slope travel.
but the portion that contains
the 'elevator' (yes,
since now that the escalator is
surrounded as shell, supporting the elevator,
the elevator now works)
would be limited.
ground zero to 100km.
specific area to allow
elevator, not that much.
but it will serve its better purpose.
other tracks outside and inner can
be used for other purposes. like neon
mining.