This drawing already shows it pretty clearly. The dotted line from the building follows that strip of land and would end up in the parking lot in Pop Century. Continuing the line would take you through the lake.
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This drawing already shows it pretty clearly. The dotted line from the building follows that strip of land and would end up in the parking lot in Pop Century. Continuing the line would take you through the lake.
P_Radden
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RobbinsDad
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This is the greatest thread ever. Let's go further than monorails - I think this is the first edition of Elon Musk's hyperloop! Pop to the International Gateway in 2.3 seconds!
peter11435
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It was project trailers for Aoa but has since been replace by parking.
PREMiERdrum
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I'm not Dan, but I think that's an overflow parking lot. It was also used as a staging area for at least some of AoA's finishing.
P_Radden
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you guys are right about it being parking. I always forget to turn off 3D on google maps to get the newest aerial imagery
A gondola could go over water, but what if you had to do an emergency evacuation?
peter11435
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The line to Aoa seems to be perfectly In line with the structure south of the E4 pond at CBR
Sachilles
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Boats.
Lift evacs, require 2 people per car with ski lifts, one in a pinch. A rescue rope is thrown or shot over the haulrope(cable the lift chair sits on). Rescue rope has a harness and is shimmied down to the chair in need of help. It has a little bench that someone sits in. Rescuer then belays the rescue bench down. It's fairly easy, and can be done from a small boat if needed. Most ski resort works get trained on this type of thing, and it takes about 2 hours to get trained up. The biggest issue is outdoor exposure at ski resort. In FL, the timeline wouldn't be as tight as a cold weather area. They are usually electric, with a diesel backup motor. While breakdowns can happen, it's rare that a ski lift type of transportation would be down long enough to need evacuation. Likely the backup motor would be used.
uncle jimmy
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In the CB expansion thread, I believe @marni1971 mentioned something about them looking into a connector from CBR to Epcot and it not being a walkway or a waterway... @danlb_2000 on the permit, does it have a date for completion... Oh and have there been any patents for a gondola type system from disney? Thinking about it too, didn't the parking lots just get new people moving trains?
peter11435
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It would still make sense to avoid going over water if possible to make evacuation and maintenance easier.
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Sachilles
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Absolutely, but it doesn't mean it can't be over come. Ski resorts across the world have overcome that on a regular basis.
TiggerDad
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So you are confirming this is a gondola?
peter11435
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I am not. That's certainly an option. But whatever it is it makes sense for it to be as accessible as possible.
The DHS permit has a completion date of 2019, but that is for completion of what is shown in the permit, they could be additional things that we have not seen yet. I wouldn't necessarily expect to see a patent for something transportation related, plenty of off the shelf systems they could use.
pvtim
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If this was a monorail/gondola other secondary transport option, why would they include it in POP/AOA? The Deluxe and even moderates are separated from the value resorts primarily by the inclusion of alternate transportation and or proximity.
If you add this to the value resorts, does this lead to price increase or reclassification of those resorts to moderate and development of a new value class per Iger's statements at increasing rooms/capacity?
If you add this to the value resorts, does this lead to price increase or reclassification of those resorts to moderate and development of a new value class per Iger's statements at increasing rooms/capacity?
peter11435
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I don't think transportation options are really what determines value vs deluxe. You already have moderates with boat transportation and deluxe resorts with nothing but buses.