PintoColvig
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My solution: Golf carts for everyone!
Connor002 said:Ha!
Humor me, please.
ISTCNavigator57 said:I think you are overgeneralizing. The monorail, as it is now, isn't efficient enought to become a property-wide transportation system, but several cities now use monorail systems that work incredibly efficiently--I was very impressed with the Las Vegas Monorail. To say Disney is never going to expand the monorail is too short-sighted. If the world remained as it is today, they would never expand the monorail, but the world won't. We may very well have flying cars in 100 years, which would change things completely. If you consider the state of transportation a 100 years ago, I'm not sure how anyone can make any statement of how we will travel in a few decades.
How is cost not an issue? :veryconfuGarryandLindy said:It's a fact that every year more and more people visist WDW. You will see more hotels being added as well as transportation. Years ago the Polynesian used to be the high end resort. I don't think anyone ever thought that they would add another high end resort but they did. Cost is not an issue.
The old WDW trains in vegas were replaced by automated trains a few years ago. As of now, none of the old WDW trains are in service.goofntink said:Guess you don't know that the Monorail in Vegas is actually old monorails that were bought from Walt Disney World. They were refurbed by Bombardier,after Disney sold them to MGM GRAND.
YA! I can get from Magic Kingdom to Animal Kingdom in just 2 hours!!! :lol:My solution: Golf carts for everyone!
I do not understand your logic (or lack there of...).GarryandLindy said:It's a fact that every year more and more people visist WDW. You will see more hotels being added as well as transportation. Years ago the Polynesian used to be the high end resort. I don't think anyone ever thought that they would add another high end resort but they did. Cost is not an issue.
imagineer boy said:Well, here's a thought I've always had. If the monorail is too expensive, why not use something like a metro link train ( like the ones used to transport guests at HKDL ) to connect the resorts to the other parks? I don't think it wouldn't nearly be as expensive as the monorails since they don't have to be elevated.
GaryT977 said:The system is designed to handle the 12 trains it currently has. In order to expand the system you would have to either demolish the monorail shop and start over or add another monorail shop
cloudboy said:Please explain the reasoning behind this?
Chape19714 said:Maybe it's time WDW actually puts the WEDWay Peoplemover Technology into effect on actual transportation.
Spine_DR said:Earlier I posted about the cost being to high for monorail expansion, but I was talking to my DVC guide today and he mentioned that the monorail expansion cant be counted out since its cheaper now than expansion of the bus sytem and he said fossil fuel prices make monorail expansion look good also. This is nothing official but hearing him talk made me think monorail expansion is possible.
The monorail is powered by electricity. The electricity is generated from coal, natural gas and petroleum coke (fossil fuels). Florida gets only 15% of its power from nuclear fuel (and that percentage is going down every year because no new nuclear plants are coming on line).Spine_DR said:Earlier I posted about the cost being to high for monorail expansion, but I was talking to my DVC guide today and he mentioned that the monorail expansion cant be counted out since its cheaper now than expansion of the bus sytem and he said fossil fuel prices make monorail expansion look good also. This is nothing official but hearing him talk made me think monorail expansion is possible.
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