News Disney Skyliner operating status - October 2019

[tissandtully]

Honestly!!!!!

Rob from Passport To The Parks went on it and he survived! I'll post the stream soon.

Lol, he came out of hiding. Was he too scared to report on the incident, fear of getting kicked off the free cupcake list?

 

[jrhwdw]

Lol, he came out of hiding. Was he too scared to report on the incident, fear of getting kicked off the free cupcake list?

UM, He's in the middle of moving?! Plus he reported the accident on Twitter the night it happened. I don't believe he has Media Access so I don't think he's worried about cupcakes.


Anyway....here's today's stream:

 

[JenniferS]

UM, He's in the middle of moving?! Plus he reported the accident on Twitter the night it happened. I don't believe he has Media Access so I don't think he's worried about cupcakes.


Anyway....here's today's stream:

Rob is just so happy to be there. His joy is contagious.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Hold on a second. It does not sound like the issues are fully resolved and that guests could be Guinea pigs of a sort. However, I do hope that everything is resolved.

Guests are continually guinea pigs.

If a system has been operating for 10 years, guests are guinea pigs to see if anything bad happens to the system in its eleventh year.

Cf. Space Mountain.

 

[Figments Friend]

Why do I suddenly feel hungry for cupcakes....?


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[Victor Kelly]

Except at Riviera. Also, If the load/unload process takes to long on the spur it will lead to a stop.

Gotcha.

I must say that, that is a horrible design flaw considering the number of handicapped guests at WDW.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Why do I suddenly feel hungry for cupcakes....?


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Because of all the Easy-Bake Ovens flying overhead?

 

[cjkeating]

Gotcha.

I must say that, that is a horrible design flaw considering the number of handicapped guests at WDW.

If ECVs at Riviera are actually the problem I could foresee them requiring Riviera ECVs to either load at Caribbean Beach or get the bus. With the gondola ECV load areas at the end stations they have already gone beyond what most if not all other urban cable cars offer.

 

[jinx8402]

Gotcha.

I must say that, that is a horrible design flaw considering the number of handicapped guests at WDW.

But have to remember Riviera does not have a lot of rooms, and even when considering part of CBR going to that station it is not a huge percentage of total ridership that will need to get on or off at that station.

 

[monothingie]

I’m getting on now.

I'm hoping you survived the trip, but if you didn't I have a really funny Haunted Mansion"esq" Tombstone epitaph ready for your grave.

 

[LAKid53]

I’m getting on now.

Bye, George, been nice knowing you....

 

[Victor Kelly]

But have to remember Riviera does not have a lot of rooms, and even when considering part of CBR going to that station it is not a huge percentage of total ridership that will need to get on or off at that station.

That is part of it yes. But efficiency is also a key factor in moving thousnds of people around WDW. Especially in one of the most crowded resorts in the world.

Does anyone know the hourly through put of this thing? Per line or overall?

 

[Victor Kelly]

George had screamed oh crudola as he crashed his new gandola.

 

[jinx8402]

That is part of it yes. But efficiency is also a key factor in moving thousnds of people around WDW. Especially in one of the most crowded resorts in the world.

Does anyone know the hourly through put of this thing? Per line or overall?

Right, and they probably calculated for a vast majority of riders who will be going straight through the station, it is more efficient to run the line straight through and stop for the edge cases where more time is needed for the ECVs.

POP has 2.8K rooms, CBR has 1.5K rooms. Riviera has 300. Add a couple hundred rooms from CBR going to the Riviera station and you still have 10x as many rooms to service and handle ECVs at the other stations.

 

[danlb_2000]

Gotcha.

I must say that, that is a horrible design flaw considering the number of handicapped guests at WDW.

I don't know if I would call it a flaw, it was a design choice since there would be tradeoffs doing this. If they went with the same design as the other stations, it would require everyone to get off and re-board. In the Skyliner thread someone did a quick sketch of how it could possibly work without re-boarding, but there may be flaws in that idea that we didn't think ok. One of the big tradeoffs with that design would be that all accessible cars would have to go onto the spur whether they were unloading or not, thus making the trip a lot longer for those guests.

 

[larryz]

I'm hoping you survived the trip, but if you didn't I have a really funny Haunted Mansion"esq" Tombstone epitaph ready for your grave.

I'll bite...
Here lies George
Nobody finer.
Met his demise
On the Skyliner.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Does anyone know the hourly through put of this thing? Per line or overall?

Every line has the maximum pph at 3,000 when filling every cabin with 10 people.

At a more comfortable 8, 2,400 pph.

 

[Zipadeelady]

Anyone actually been on the skyliner since it reopened? Running ok? All lines?

Don't ask me to go to the other thread where the naysayers and scaredy cats congregate. I tease, I just don't want to sift through pages of threads of arguments. Just want the facts.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Anyone actually been on the skyliner since it reopened? Running ok? All lines?

Don't ask me to go to the other thread where the naysayers and scaredy cats congregate. I tease, I just don't want to sift through pages of threads of arguments. Just want the facts.

Yes, some here and around the internet have been on it and it's working fine.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Anyone actually been on the skyliner since it reopened? Running ok? All lines?

Don't ask me to go to the other thread where the naysayers and scaredy cats congregate. I tease, I just don't want to sift through pages of threads of arguments. Just want the facts.

Here you go...