No question I would take issue with those inspections. The responsibility and costs of these inspections have been born by Disney according to a 56-year-old agreement with the state and Disney has an exemplary safety record. Through the years they’ve adopted some cutting edge technology, so the agreement made sense then and still makes sense now. If the state was insisting on taking over at this time, I would question why.
You had me until "cutting edge technology." The current monorails are older than DAK, and almost as old as DHS. Reagan was POTUS when they were built, and Google was still nearly a decade away, let alone widespread internet usage. In other words, they're old as dirt. Sure, they've added some tech over the years, such as semi-automation, but cutting edge isn't the phrase I'd use to describe WDW's monorail system.
Pretending the inspections will be in good faith is utterly pointless. They won't be. There is absolutely no reason to even fantasize about some completely different set of circumstances, which would serve only to obfuscate what is very clearly going on.
This involves more than just the monorail system. It’s just the first of many state inspections. I don’t think it can be separated. Even if you leave out the part about cutting edge technology my opinion would be the same. There is really no way to discuss this issue without referring to the motivation for the inspections. There was an agreement and Disney has an exemplary record. Why the change?
But, is that the reason he's doing this? Genuine safety concern or political stunt that ends with no action taken once he has grabbed his headlines.
I’m actually surprised Iger didn’t talk to Desantis personally and throw chapek under the bus like he has for other things and just apologize for how it was handled and that it wouldn’t happen like that if he were still in charge. Then offer DeSantis a churro and dole whip as a peace offering and shake and be done with this garbage
He probably did. It’s not about that, this dispute is politically useful for DeSantis, he has no motivation to resolve it amicably.
This. This. This. Every new development it’s nearly the same thing of the same people looking to brand manage and provide rationale and justification. “I know this is technically bad here’s why it’s actually good and justified.” It’s a lame attempt at a Gotcha based on assumed left-right stereotypes.
The system opened with the Mark IV monorails. They were replaced by the Mark VI monorails over several years when Bush was president (89 - 91).
Any properly credentialed individual.... maybe even those that used to work for RCID
