Speed of elevator on rotating wheel space station

Assuming a passenger was sitting in an elevator in a rotating wheel space station, as depicted in the movie 2001:A Space Odyssey

and based on this question Elevator on rotating wheel space station, would there be any obvious structural or physiological limitations on how quickly an elevator could move from the central hub to the outer ring, assuming a station with a 600m radius was spinning at 1rpm producing .8G in the outer ring.

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