# Lifts out of service

> A broken lift is a closed station for anyone who cannot manage stairs.

- Category: Transport
- Cadence: live
- Status: Live: values change continuously; cite the retrieval time.
- Dataset key: `live-lifts`
- Source: [TfL Unified API](https://api.tfl.gov.uk/Disruptions/Lifts/v2)
- Licence: TfL Open Data Licence — [terms](https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/terms-and-conditions/transport-data-service)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/lifts-out-of-service](https://londongraph.com/g/lifts-out-of-service)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/lifts-out-of-service](https://londongraph.com/data/lifts-out-of-service)

## Methodology

Live lift disruptions across the TfL network. Step-free access fails quietly: a suspended line is announced everywhere, a broken lift is a notice on a wall. Where several lifts are out at one station the count reflects that, because the difference between one lift and all of them is the difference between a longer walk and no route at all. Station names are read from the start of TfL's own disruption message, which is where they are published.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/lifts-out-of-service): A broken lift is a closed station for anyone who cannot manage stairs.
- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/lifts-out-of-service?view=geography): Compare the same measure geographically.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.