Maglev monorail should replace current system

[PeterAlt]

After thinking about this a great deal (and believe me I have), I've decided that the monorail system should be updated with a maglev system. The current system is too slow and buses actually make the trip from the TTC to EC faster than the monorail. That factoid alone is to much ammunition for bus supporters making their case against the monorail. If monorail has any chance of winning the debate, it can't compete as is with its 1960's technology. It needs to compete fairly by updating it with a maglev system. Maglevs are monorails and use similar guideways, so major structural work would not be necessary to convert the system. Once converted, it could be part of a regional system that could stop at International Drive and Orlando International Airport.

Some of you are probably thinking that Disney would never expand the system outside their gates. I have a solution. Sell the system to an outside company who would.

 

[Voxel]

After thinking about this a great deal (and believe me I have), I've decided that the monorail system should be updated with a maglev system. The current system is too slow and buses actually make the trip from the TTC to EC faster than the monorail. That factoid alone is to much ammunition for bus supporters making their case against the monorail. If monorail has any chance of winning the debate, it can't compete as is with its 1960's technology. It needs to compete fairly by updating it with a maglev system. Maglevs are monorails and use similar guideways, so major structural work would not be necessary to convert the system. Once converted, it could be part of a regional system that could stop at International Drive and Orlando International Airport.

Some of you are probably thinking that Disney would never expand the system outside their gates. I have a solution. Sell the system to an outside company who would.

Except for one factor, Maglev are A) Wider, B) heavier, C) produce much more force then those tracks could handle. The safest way to do that would be to destroy the monorail line and build a maglev line.

 

[Voxel]

I also forgot to add that the weight of the Magnets being added onto the existing structure could cause issues.

Don't get me wrong I love the Rail system at the World and around the world, My father taught me how to operate both a steam and diesel locomotive, I am just pointing out design flaws.

 

[kap91]

The monorail might be slightly slower than buses (due to governed speed only -though I've never timed the two. ) but it transports around 5x the people at the same or greater frequency.

As for expanding it around the resort---see the 18,000 other monorail expansion threads.

Maglev does make sense from WDW to the airport and that may indeed be sooner happening than you'd think if Florida decides to give a crazy man right of way on the beach line. He wants to build a maglev from the airport to convention center. Logical expansion routes would travel up and down I4

 

[lazyboy97o]

The Mark VI monorails are capable of going faster than they are driven, so speed is a non-reason. You'd just toss everybody inside around or have to strap them in, significantly increasing loading and unloading times.

The guideways are not at all similar. Not even close. They'd have to be completely replaced, not converted.

 

[Jeff53]

Expense, weight, power consumption, new cars, Did I mention Expense?