Downtown Disney Marketplace bus stop operating at reduced hours

[wdwmagic]

http://www.wdwmagic.com/transportat...place-bus-stop-operating-at-reduced-hours.htm

 

[ToTBellHop]

Kinda lame--love going to DTD in the morning and I find the PI stop (what do they call that now if there is no PI?) inconvenient. Of course, the Marketplace stop is going away anyway, so might as well get used to that.

 

[CDavid]

What kind of work are they doing which requires partially closing the Marketplace bus facility?

 

[dstrawn9889]

have to widen the roundabouts to accommodate the articulateds, and to allow for better flow (easier in/out for the drivers). that was alengthy conversation i had with a trtanspotation CM, while waiting on All Star. so--- grain of salt if you wish

 

[ToTBellHop]

have to widen the roundabouts to accommodate the articulateds, and to allow for better flow (easier in/out for the drivers). that was alengthy conversation i had with a trtanspotation CM, while waiting on All Star. so--- grain of salt if you wish

Really? Thought this bus stop was going away and there was going to be a new, centralized bus stop closer to the current Pleasure Island?

 

[Killnme]

Here is a brilliant idea let's close the biggest part of the parking lot to build parking garages, while at the same time shorting the bus hours. Sounds like great business to me. Oh and let's raise all the prices at DTD while we are at it.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Here is a brilliant idea let's close the biggest part of the parking lot to build parking garages, while at the same time shorting the bus hours. Sounds like great business to me. Oh and let's raise all the prices at DTD while we are at it.

They are rebuilding pretty much all of DTD. It's going to require some accommodations on our part. The alternative was to close the entire area but good luck keeping any merchants doing that.

 

[dstrawn9889]

you dont live around construction do you? where exactly are they supposed to build the adjacent parking decks? in the lake?

 

[mickeysshoes]

So now when we go early we start PI and work our way back to Market Place instead of the other way around. No big deal here.

 

[CDavid]

you dont live around construction do you? where exactly are they supposed to build the adjacent parking decks? in the lake?

Well, I suppose they could have placed them across Buena Vista Drive between the Casting Center and Team Disney.

Regardless, yes, there will have to be accommodations until the work is finished.

 

[Mammymouse]

Any time table as to when the parking lots/garage and bus loops will be finished? It will be a nightmare this July if it is still all in total construction mode.

 

[dstrawn9889]

January is when the permits expire, i believe.... for the parking deck anyway, and there is still another to go and a widening of the BLVD, and the direct in from the highway....

 

[Killnme]

you dont live around construction do you? where exactly are they supposed to build the adjacent parking decks? in the lake?

How about finish one big project to open up parking again and then do the bus loop.

 

[Rob562]

Really? Thought this bus stop was going away and there was going to be a new, centralized bus stop closer to the current Pleasure Island?

Since the new bus stop facility is going kinda where the PI stops are now (though closer to the road, I think), I'd presume that for some stretch of the construction the Marketplace stop might be the only one in service, which would require access for the articulated buses. (Maybe they'll re-open the West Side stops during that period).

The new location of the Marketplace boat dock will also make it easier to get off a bus and hop onto a water shuttle right there.

-Rob

 

[dstrawn9889]

@Killnme and have a mess for three years instead of one?

 

[Bolt]

It's open Noon-midnight. That's late enough without any need for pandemonium.