News DeSantis moves to bring state safety oversight of the Walt Disney World Monorail including suspending the service for inspections

[MagicHappens1971]

I would think falsifying an inspection report for something pertaining to public safety and mass transit would but illegal.

These “inspectors” hate Disney so much they are willing to suffer legal consequences?

I think you are a little into conspiracy theory land with this.

They don’t need to falsify anything to shut down the monorail for 8 hours on Christmas Day for an “routine inspection”

 

[Brian]

They don’t need to falsify anything to shut down the monorail for 8 hours on Christmas Day for an “routine inspection”

I doubt state inspectors would be working on Christmas day.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

I doubt state inspectors would be working on Christmas day.

It was more conjecture than anything. Okay, let’s not say Christmas Day, they could do the same on December 23rd. Or the day before Thanksgiving, or any day that they feel like. If you don’t think the governor who is already weaponizing the government against Disney won’t do the same in regards to Monorail inspections, you’re naive.

 

[Trauma]

It was more conjecture than anything. Okay, let’s not say Christmas Day, they could do the same on December 23rd. Or the day before Thanksgiving, or any day that they feel like. If you don’t think the governor who is already weaponizing the government against Disney won’t do the same in regards to Monorail inspections, you’re naive.

That is ridiculous and you know it.

 

[lazyboy97o]

It was more conjecture than anything. Okay, let’s not say Christmas Day, they could do the same on December 23rd. Or the day before Thanksgiving, or any day that they feel like. If you don’t think the governor who is already weaponizing the government against Disney won’t do the same in regards to Monorail inspections, you’re naive.

You need to stop making these ridiculous statements and treat the governor like a liar. Just because he had a whole speech at Walt Disney World about this doesn’t mean it’s what he intends to do, because he is a liar and doesn’t mean it or anything else he has said or published.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

That is ridiculous and you know it.

What's ridiculous? That the same hostile governor of Florida is using is governmental powers to punish a company, wouldn't use those same governmental powers (via this new legislation) to "punish" Disney by shutting down the Monorail for extended periods of time?

 

[Trauma]

What's ridiculous? That the same hostile governor of Florida is using is governmental powers to punish a company, wouldn't use those same governmental powers (via this new legislation) to "punish" Disney by shutting down the Monorail for extended periods of time?

So you are suggesting we are going to have the monorail shut down once a week for 8 hour inspections ?

 

[Brian]

So you are suggesting we are going to have the monorail shut down once a week for 8 hour inspections ?

They're already shut down at least once a week, sometimes more, for weather or mechanical issues. They deploy buses to the affected routes and all is well in the world.

Now there'll be NY Times stories about it.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

So you are suggesting we are going to have the monorail shut down once a week for 8 hour inspections ?

Well as ridiculous as that sounds, I wouldn't put anything past this governor.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Suspending service…

Just more ridiculous…this is like a comic book issue tantrum

 

[MagicHappens1971]

They're already shut down at least once a week, sometimes more, for weather or mechanical issues. They deploy buses to the affected routes and all is well in the world.

Now there'll be NY Times stories about it.

I don't know if I'd say they shut down "once a week" and even if that was true, it's not for extended periods of time.

 

[lazyboy97o]

They're already shut down at least once a week, sometimes more, for weather or mechanical issues. They deploy buses to the affected routes and all is well in the world.

Now there'll be NY Times stories about it.

This is exactly why nobody believes when you say you think retaliating against speech is wrong. You’re making excuses and rationalizing it, trying to water it down and turn it into a Gotcha when you know full and well that it’s all part of the same pattern of behavior.

 

[wdwmagic]

This is a heck of a claim.

Are you saying the people doing the inspections will be handpicked to carry out a vendetta against Disney ?

Well that is exactly what happened with the appointment of the board of supervisors (particularly with Bridget Ziegler). Why would this be any different?

 

[hopemax]

Under this new oversight, what might change if the monorail has an incident like the door or similar, regarding a timeline? Previously, Disney would try and get them operating again in hours. Would this still be the case, or could potentially spill into a 2nd day?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Well that is exactly what happened with the appointment of the board of supervisors (particularly with Bridget Ziegler). Why would this be any different?

Yeah, but he didn’t do anything like give a speech at Walt Disney World saying he was going to do more things and listed the monorail as an example. Right?

 

[mikejs78]

Well, the legislature botched this one. The district was created by special act, not local act. Disney's lawyers are probably having a good laugh at that one.

 

[Brian]

I don't know if I'd say they shut down "once a week" and even if that was true, it's not for extended periods of time.

Perhaps it's improved since I left Disney. At the time when I was still working there (a few years ago now), there were shutdowns fairly regularly.

This is exactly why nobody believes when you say you think retaliating against speech is wrong. You’re making excuses and rationalizing it, trying to water it down and turn it into a Gotcha when you know full and well that it’s all part of the same pattern of behavior.

No, I'm saying that there is a very simple solution to the antics of this governor, at least as it pertains to monorails. That's it.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Under this new oversight, what might change if the monorail has an incident like the door or similar, regarding a timeline? Previously, Disney would try and get them operating again in hours. Would this still be the case, or could potentially spill into a 2nd day?

That’s for the executive branch to decide.

 

[lazyboy97o]

No, I'm saying that there is a very simple solution to the antics of this governor, at least as it pertains to monorails. That's it.

You just made a false equivalency between a weather delay and the state shutting down the monorail as retaliation. It’s not the first time either.

 

[Casper Gutman]

I would think falsifying an inspection report for something pertaining to public safety and mass transit would but illegal.

These “inspectors” hate Disney so much they are willing to suffer legal consequences?

I think you are a little into conspiracy theory land with this.

No need to lie. A motivated inspector can always find a violation. This is particularly true if the regulations have been written in broad, vague terms intended to create ambiguity.

But as other posters have pointed out, there are many ways to leverage this law. Heck, it needn’t be subtle or clever. In the last year the administration in question has been caught falsifying one very significant report and, in another case, burying an inspection that found no violations and taking punitive actions against the target anyway.