Lifting paths on quotient spaces

Let X be a compactum and G an upper semi-continuous decomposition of X such that each element of G is the continuous image of an ordered compactum. If the quotient space X/G is the continuous image of an ordered compactum, under what conditions is X also the continuous image of an ordered compactum? Examples around the (non-metric) Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem show that one must place severe conditions oil G if one wishes to obtain positive results. We prove that the compactum X is the image of ail ordered compactum when each g is an element of G has 0-dimensional boundary. We also consider the case when G has only countably many non-degenerate elements. These results extend earlier work of the first named author in a number of ways. (c) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.