Using the bed spawning trick I have made a tileable elevator that can spawn you at any height from bedrock to 255 in a few seconds. Only 1 thing, you have to die to use it...
This uses my shift register so that it only needs 2 wires to control all levels. Pulse length detecters or coded binary pulses could have also been used with just 1 wire, but they would need more space to decode the signals.