OK, fairly O/T, but the phrase in general is common in SoCal in regards to a long wait in line....
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-dayen-musk-loop-20180527-story.html
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Have you ever tried to drive out of Dodger Stadium and waited an hour to get to the freeway? Have you ever stood in an interminably long line for the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland? Congratulations: You've had a preview of the bottleneck joys of Loop, Elon Musk's idea for an underground "personal rapid transit" system.
Last week, Musk spent a night in Bel-Air explaining his grand PRT project to relieve the city's traffic congestion. Instead of a mass transit system like a subway, PRT is individualized — you get in a small car and are taken directly to your destination, making no other stops along the way. In Musk's version, an elevator would lower your personal car into the tunnel, or you could get in a Loop "pod" for 8-16 people, and be zipped underneath Los Angeles for $1 a ride. Musk theorized a trip from Dodger Stadium to LAX would take 10 minutes.
But first, you'd have to get your car into the tunnel. Musk's design fails to solve that fundamental challenge of all PRT systems — which is why practically none have been built. Worse, Musk wants to cripple the already gridlocked above-ground network, also known as roads, in service to his subterranean fantasy.<<
Any DLR attraction nowadays has to address the guests per hour issue. No way could the DLR open Electrical Eel, with its less than 500 guests per hour capacity.
So what good ideas has Disney placed in the filing cabinet due to low capacity?
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-dayen-musk-loop-20180527-story.html
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Have you ever tried to drive out of Dodger Stadium and waited an hour to get to the freeway? Have you ever stood in an interminably long line for the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland? Congratulations: You've had a preview of the bottleneck joys of Loop, Elon Musk's idea for an underground "personal rapid transit" system.
Last week, Musk spent a night in Bel-Air explaining his grand PRT project to relieve the city's traffic congestion. Instead of a mass transit system like a subway, PRT is individualized — you get in a small car and are taken directly to your destination, making no other stops along the way. In Musk's version, an elevator would lower your personal car into the tunnel, or you could get in a Loop "pod" for 8-16 people, and be zipped underneath Los Angeles for $1 a ride. Musk theorized a trip from Dodger Stadium to LAX would take 10 minutes.
But first, you'd have to get your car into the tunnel. Musk's design fails to solve that fundamental challenge of all PRT systems — which is why practically none have been built. Worse, Musk wants to cripple the already gridlocked above-ground network, also known as roads, in service to his subterranean fantasy.<<
Any DLR attraction nowadays has to address the guests per hour issue. No way could the DLR open Electrical Eel, with its less than 500 guests per hour capacity.
So what good ideas has Disney placed in the filing cabinet due to low capacity?
