DisneyInsider101
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Yet you don't see NYC's subway doors open while it's going full speed, do you?
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News Monorail Red in motion with guests on board and doors open
- Thread starter ptaylor
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Doesn't make it safer , which was your argument.
EricsBiscuit
Well-Known Member
This is all the more reason I take the ferry.
You can transfer between cars at full speed on the subway. So technically yes you do have open doors at full speed.
DisneyInsider101
Active Member
Well it’s gone National. And another plug for @wdwmagic in the article too.
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/...erated-with-door-wide-open-footage-shows.html
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/...erated-with-door-wide-open-footage-shows.html
Want to move the goalposts again ?
Have you ridden the subway recently? Between Comrad DeBlasio and the gov gutting the MTA it really sucks.
SorcererMC
Well-Known Member
As far as I know, WDW (and other Florida theme parks) have full-time inspection regimes, and thus are exempt from state and federal oversight from transportation authorities (like National Transportation Safety Board or FL Dept of Transportation). There was no (physical) injury in this case; I'm not 100% sure but I don't think they would have to file a report with state or federal OSHA (Occupational Safety/Health Admin).
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
The NYC Subway is an absolute horror show. 0 stars. Do not recommend.
Brad Bishop
Well-Known Member
That's an entirely different situation.
If you're riding an elevator and the door is open, well, stay away from the door. I don't know that I'd immediately get on the phone but when it stopped I'd get off and tell the building's maintenance about it.
If you're riding an elevator and you're just stuck, then, yeah, I'd probably push the call button or look for a phone or something.
If I were on the monorail and it just stopped. I don't know that I'd call that in. I'd figure: The driver knows. If the driver is dead then someone is going to notice the 6-car train not moving and no one responding.
I ride the subway a bit in my city and I really couldn't tell you where the phones where on any of them. If there were a situation that required me calling it in, I probably could find the phones but, at that point, I'm more concerned with getting off the train.
Not calling driver was not a crime committed by the passengers nor was it required of them. The big news is: Disney can't keep their monorail door shut.
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
Bingo.
Brad Bishop
Well-Known Member
I think this thread has proved a few things:
1) We can literally argue about anything on this forum. The monorail has it's door pop open mid-run and somehow, that's an argument.
2) There are those that are so baked on the pixie dust that even if a monorail door pops open mid-run they find a way to focus on the guest who had nothing to do with the monorail door opening mid-run. (take the focus off Disney though sort of admitting Disney goofed on this one but: LOOK AT THE GUEST!!)
1) We can literally argue about anything on this forum. The monorail has it's door pop open mid-run and somehow, that's an argument.
2) There are those that are so baked on the pixie dust that even if a monorail door pops open mid-run they find a way to focus on the guest who had nothing to do with the monorail door opening mid-run. (take the focus off Disney though sort of admitting Disney goofed on this one but: LOOK AT THE GUEST!!)
BlindChow
Well-Known Member
I know the emergency phones are there. I've seen them hundreds of times. I've seen them so often in fact, they've basically become "wallpaper." I don't even think about or notice them anymore.
I'm not sure I would have even thought about the phones in this case... If this was a situation that was more of an immediate emergency, one that absolutely required a stop, then sure, I'd probably think, "Hey! We can contact the driver using the phone!"
But in this case, thinking "Wow, we better tell a cast member once we get to the station!" seems like a perfectly reasonable response given the circumstances.
I'm not sure I would have even thought about the phones in this case... If this was a situation that was more of an immediate emergency, one that absolutely required a stop, then sure, I'd probably think, "Hey! We can contact the driver using the phone!"
But in this case, thinking "Wow, we better tell a cast member once we get to the station!" seems like a perfectly reasonable response given the circumstances.
jimbojones
Well-Known Member
It is social media, everything is either an unbelievable catastrophe or the most amazing thing to have ever happened, and every person is either a hero or a demon. Social media is an artificial world of superlatives and extremes. Otherwise who would view your posts?
Not to say that this isn't a pretty glaring example of some of the troubles at Disney...
crxbrett
Well-Known Member
According to the news report, the lady who posted the video says Disney CMs/maintenance spent 10 minutes trying to get the door shut before it was deemed secured by the CMs and then took off from the TTC. Sooooo they were aware it had a problem, but thought they had taken care of it.
This also explains a little why everybody seems calm in the video since they had just watched maintenance trying to get the thing closed before they left the station. So it wasn't a big shock or probably a surprise when the door became unlatched after they took off and folks knew the door had already been a problem before they left.
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This also explains a little why everybody seems calm in the video since they had just watched maintenance trying to get the thing closed before they left the station. So it wasn't a big shock or probably a surprise when the door became unlatched after they took off and folks knew the door had already been a problem before they left.
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Incomudro
Well-Known Member
Far be it for me to defend the NYC subway vs monorail, but as far as safety and cleanliness of the trains themselves - the subway wins.
The subway cars even get homeless people sleeping in them, and people from every other walk of life and the subway cars are still in better shape than the monorails.
Any lack of safety comes from the residents.
draybook
Well-Known Member
I'm seriously trying to wrap my head around the logic of some of you. It's not like there haven't been PARTS OF THE MONORAIL FALLING OFF WHILE IN SERVICE and yet you continue to rail on the people riding in them. Disney knows that these things are falling apart yet they continue to let them be used while unsafe. Placards don't take the place of safety. Seriously, what's wrong with you? Profits are supposedly at an all time high and you think it's on the guests to take up the slack on safety?
