Any Monorail Expansion Updates?

[goodtimes5286]

i guess no one reads earler posts, its closer to 1 BILLION a mile hence why the monerail extension will never happen (that and disney doesnt charge for it so they wont get there money back).

The best chance you have is disney making it dirt cheep, making epcot a hub and creating a boardwalk monerail system (getting rid of the boat), it to DHS, DHS to DAK (including AKL) and then charging each of the deluxe resort guests a $10 a night monerail fee, eventually they'd make it up and people hardly see $10 missing on a vacation.

Someone said 5.5 miles, ok lets say 6 miles x a billion a mile = 6 B, at 10 bucks a room a night it would take 600,000,000 sold rooms to make up for the monerail cost. Just curious (b/c disney doesnt register for the star report, so idk if ANYONE on WDW would know this), but in the deluxe resorts, how many rooms get sold a year?

After looking at the website it wouldnt be QUITE that high, more like 100 million a mile (including station and monerail costs), but it seams like disneys smart in waiting. monerail technology is not only getting better, but more importantly CHEEPER! 88 mil/mile in 2004, 10-30 mil/mile in 2008. Esp if disney gets a long line and/or multiple railways, they could get a discount.

After checking out these figures, and hoping that disney has smarter people in their bussiness department then a hospitality n MBA student, they could actually make this work.

 

[imagineer boy]

Man just imagine the huge bloody pulp that dead horse has been beaten into by now. :lol:

 

[Tubes]

Horse? I thought we where just smashing red food coloring into the floorboards.

 

[Uncle Lupe]

Agreed. Not. Gonna. Happen. Money could be spent better expanding parks & resorts. Not that I wouldn't LOVE to see it happen

They can put more stitch stuff in tomorrow land. :hurl:

 

[s8film40]

 

[unkadug]

touché

 

[Lee]

On the other hand...

 

[majorrfb]

While I agree with you that they won't be expanded anytime soon, Monorails are not inefficient. The per passenger per mile cost of monorails is usually less than half that of buses. Keep in mind the monorails account for around half of WDW's transportation needs and do so with less than 12 trains using a mere fraction of the energy that the equivalent buses would. Not to mention the labor savings, 10 monorail operated by 10 drivers is equivalent to 50 buses with 50 drivers. If there is one thing monorails are, its efficient.

They are very efficient`but as many have already stated, the construction costs will and do prevent any further expansion of the system. Each time my wife and I visit WDW we always take rides on the Monorail from MK to Epcot and the resort areas just to relax and enjoy the sights. :sohappy:

 

[s8film40]

They are very efficient`but as many have already stated, the construction costs will and do prevent any further expansion of the system. Each time my wife and I visit WDW we always take rides on the Monorail from MK to Epcot and the resort areas just to relax and enjoy the sights. :sohappy:

The construction costs don't prevent the monorail from being expanded. It's Disney's decision not to expand they certainly have enough money to do it. In the long term monorails cost less especially if you factor in the eventual rise in gas prices. The problem is Disney isn't planning long term, every recent addition Disney has made has been for the purpose of creating immediate results. By the time a monorail system will have paid for itself Disney will have sold off WDW.