Delayed opening monorail

[Disone]

So Disney has just announced that on Friday all three monorail lines will not open until 10:00 a.m. For " routine maintenance"

But wow what a critical time to not have the lines open.

I'm not sure this has ever happened before. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the central Florida tourism oversight board.

They certainly aren't saying that in their announcement. And for that reason I've chosen not to put this on that thread.

 

[buckeyegator]

first step towards genie+ to use them

 

[Disstevefan1]

So Disney has just announced that on Friday all three monorail lines will not open until 10:00 a.m. For " routine maintenance"

But wow what a critical time to not have the lines open.

I'm not sure this has ever happened before. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the central Florida tourism oversight board.

They certainly aren't saying that in their announcement. And for that reason I've chosen not to put this on that thread.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I'm not sure this has ever happened before. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the central Florida tourism oversight board.

They don’t really have any authority over the monorails as a system and have not moved to assume such authority.

As of the first of the month, FDOT now has authority over the monorails but that is supposed to move through the rule making process. It seems doubtful that Disney wouldn’t make note of a state-caused interruption in service and would couch it as maintenance.

 

[Disone]

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Ehhhh. I honestly don't think they're that bad anymore.

Downtime is way down versus some years ago, and when there is downtime it's usually not associated to a specific train issue.

I know people like to throw around the 20-year life cycle. That's more of an accounting thing. There are plenty of trains around the world that are way more than 20 years old. Although against my own argument Tokyo Disney did needlessly replace their monorails when they were 19 years old. So yeah there is that. But I do like these trains. I like the leader jet look. I'm kind of glad they fixed them up and kept them.

 

[Disone]

They don’t really have any authority over the monorails as a system and have not moved to assume such authority.

As of the first of the month, FDOT now has authority over the monorails but that is supposed to move through the rule making process. It seems doubtful that Disney wouldn’t make note of a state-caused interruption in service and would couch it as maintenance.

It does seem odd I agree. 100%. But I still wonder because this is the first time that I know of that all three lines have had a scheduled delayed opening Not associated with an accident.

It certainly would be an interesting choice if Disney is choosing to low-key this.

 

[ChrisFL]

So it's just one day? or a new schedule?

 

[Disone]

So it's just one day? or a new schedule?

Seems to be specific to only Friday. So I don't think it's a new schedule.

 

[bpiper]

Maybe they are performing overnight maintenance that requires a little more time to complete, hence the late start of operation? Like switching out a transformer. The overnight window isn't that large and sometimes things take longer than the window allows.

 

[monorail81]

It's a little weird to me to have all three shut down at the same time. Usually, they’d be able to keep Epcot running if they were working on the MK beams (or the opposite). The only thing that I can think it might be would be some sort of computer system upgrade. I can see where that would take down the whole system.

 

[JohnD]

So Disney has just announced that on Friday all three monorail lines will not open until 10:00 a.m. For " routine maintenance"

But wow what a critical time to not have the lines open.

I'm not sure this has ever happened before. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the central Florida tourism oversight board.

They certainly aren't saying that in their announcement. And for that reason I've chosen not to put this on that thread.

CFTOD has nothing to do with that. There was a separate transportation bill which was amended to included FDOT doing monorail inspections, including shutting down the monorail when those inspections occur. That doesn't necessarily mean this shut down is related to that.

 

[esskay]

Probably just swapping out a critical power related component required for all beams and know they won’t get it done by park opening.

 

[larryz]

As of the first of the month, FDOT now has authority over the monorails but that is supposed to move through the rule making process.

Perhaps FDOT is visiting to do an eyes-on assessment... as for calling it maintenance, I'm sure Disney doesn't want to antagonize the state agency overseeing their signature transportation system.

 

[wdwmagic]

Monorail has resumed service

 

[SingleRider]

When they run busses from TTC to MK does that mean you have to go through security twice?

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

When they run busses from TTC to MK does that mean you have to go through security twice?

Good question. If they pickup in the bus loop within security, they could drop off on the contemporary path that is past the security check point. I haven’t seen how they do it though but that would be a possibility.

 

[lazyboy97o]

When they run busses from TTC to MK does that mean you have to go through security twice?

The Transportation and Ticket Center bus loop is not within the secure area. I can’t imagine they’d bother with setting up a new perimeter.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

The Transportation and Ticket Center bus loop is not within the secure area. I can’t imagine they’d bother with setting up a new perimeter.

There are 2 bus shelters at TTC, the older one that is not typically used would be entered by guests after clearing security.

I’m not sure if the TTC to MK busses typically use this loop or not. They used to, but that was years ago before security was at TTC.

 

[castlecake2.0]

Busses tend to pick up inside the security perimeter at the bus loop beside the EPCOT monorail station. They have a drop off area at Magic Kingdom that exits into the secure area.