Wouldn't upgrading the entire fleet to the new model been faster and cheaper to do? Not to mention better to do as well? Bombardiar could have delivered their newest automated Mark model and it would have been delivered a lot faster and probably for a lot less than what they are spending now (when you factor in all the delays). And they would have gotten higher capacity and better trainsets in the process. dot com
If it was cheaper or significantly faster it would have been the followed course. New trains would not have an appreciably higher capacity, much less a capacity that could not be achieved by redoing the interiors of the existing trains.
But they didn't anticipate all the delays and additional expenses caused by the delays...
Delays that more than likely would have happened with new trains. Delays are pretty much a given in transit projects.
No, it sounds like they are custom developing the train upgrades. Yes, I understand that company that's doing it has installed this exact system in many other past projects, but installing it on the current Disney system hasn't been done by this company before. This is added development cost plus the cost of each time they get it wrong, testing, more development, delays, retries, more testing, and the cycle repeats.
Adding automation is never the same experience twice. It's not a plug-and-play type of system whether it is a newly built system or an added system. You're also not going to get that like new experience at Walt Disney World unless you shut down the system for months to do the installation uninterrupted.
New trains are not significantly different than old trains so there is no new train out there that is "properly" designed from he ground up for automation. New/rebuilt trains would just utilize the automation system that is being put in place now, so the automation system would not be replaced and the only duplication of effort would be in regards to wiring, which would not have to change significantly with a rebuild. So new/rebuilt trains would still benefit from the experience gained now because they would not just work on arrival.
And plenty of brand new automation systems have similar periods where there is little success. The only solution to these problems that meets what you want is shutting the whole thing down for months and doing it all at once.
It probably will not happen for decades. The trains can be rebuilt like they have done for Disneyland.
Monorail Teal is that test vehicle. A brand new monorail built for testing would not be appreciably different from what is operating.
You're buying into this idea of "rejection," which already makes no sense, from one person with a spotty at best track record. Monorail trains are not sentient beings with unconscious responses. The whole point of tests on a single vehicle is to find these sorts of problems and work through them. Even putting Monorail Teal back into service could have to do with factors beyond problems with automation testing, like another train that could benefit from the downtime.
What you keep completely missing is that even with brand new trains you would still be working through problems with the automation. There is nothing about new trains that makes them magically better or different.
But you cannot say what would make the new trains appreciably different than the existing trains. They are nothing more than a hypothetical that has been given an inherent superiority.
