Apropos of nothing, Tokyo has announced that their just under 20 year old monorails will be replaced starting from next spring.
https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/tdrblog/detail/pr190925/
Speaking of East... I wonder what's up with the former Computer Central these days? It still housed critical server infrastructure as of a few years ago.
The trifecta of Guest Relations, Computer Central, and Electric Umbrella Chicken Nuggets gives me faith and hope that quarter of...
Yes, the door opening should have triggered a door alert and an automatic stop. The driver would then be required to engage the door override to get the monorail moving again at a greatly limited speed.
Guests putting weight against the door to break the seal is sufficient to trigger the alert...
As for the World Drive water bridge crunch problem, I could see them circumventing that by sending TTC/GF/Poly buses the long way around on Floridian Way once the road improvements in that area are complete. It's a much longer route but would benefit from splitting the load and being almost...
It's true but I misspoke slightly. Mark V were the brand new bodies on the Mark III chassis. Mark VII is a restyling of the existing V bodies plus new noses. Still the Mark III chassis from the late 60s underneath!
Disneyland only put new fiberglass bodies on their existing (very small) trains. Didn't replace them.
That whole project was peanuts compared to the cost of developing new trains for WDW.
Disneyland has suffered the blemish of the abandoned Peoplemover tracks for going on two decades now and no one really seems to care. I can't imagine the WDW monorail beams will be any different.
When the system finally degrades to the point that the meager maintenance budget cannot keep it running then yes, at that point the monorails will be replaced.
Unfortunately the replacement will be new bus routes.