Main Street Trolley tracks

[sixbagelboy]

Let me start off by saying I love the horse drawn trolley and miss seeing it every time I go to the park and would hate to see it gone forever, however when I visit the MK I see someone's shoe or stroller wheel being tripped up by the trolley tracks embedded in the street making it a safety hazard. With the trolley being used so little, why don't they discontinue it and pull up the tracks?

 

[Damon7777]

Well sixbagel,

you see Disney mgt does not want to lose its groove and have guests who track their every decision rail against them for being out of line

 

[Master Yoda]

Fairly certain you could say the same thing about every curb, incline, decline, surface material change, step, expansion joint, etc. If you remove everything that a person could possible stumble over you will end up with a park as featureless as the Bonneville Salt Flats.

 

[sixbagelboy]

Fairly certain you could say the same thing about every curb, incline, decline, surface material change, step, expansion joint, etc. If you remove everything that a person could possible stumble over you will end up with a park as featureless as the Bonneville Salt Flats.

True, but curbs, inclines, declines, surface material changes, step, expansion joints, etc don't usually run down the middle of a well traveled walkway. If they do, they are repaired.

 

[Master Yoda]

True, but curbs, inclines, declines, surface material changes, step, expansion joints, etc don't usually run down the middle of a well traveled walkway. If they do, they are repaired.

I beg to differ. You literally have all of the things I mentioned in this one picture from POFQ with a manhole cover thrown in for good measure.

Look around any walkway anywhere in WDW or anywhere else for that matter and you will find a myriad of minor obstacles.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Is the trolley used "so little"? I ride it every trip.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

when I visit the MK I see someone's stroller wheel being tripped up by the trolley tracks embedded in the street making it a safety hazard.

I agree.

We should get rid of the strollers to prevent an accident from happening.

 

[marni1971]

Or people could just watch where they’re going

 

[ToTBellHop]

Or people could just watch where they’re going

Not if they have to load up My Disney Experience to go on anything and Play Disney Parks to have any fun.

 

[DVC4bestvacations]

Let me start off by saying I love the horse drawn trolley and miss seeing it every time I go to the park and would hate to see it gone forever, however when I visit the MK I see someone's shoe or stroller wheel being tripped up by the trolley tracks embedded in the street making it a safety hazard. With the trolley being used so little, why don't they discontinue it and pull up the tracks?

Seriously???
If you get to the Magic Kingdom in the morning you'd see it every time. You would even get to see the entertainers that ride the trolley up and down mainstreet.

 

[marni1971]

Not if they have to load up My Disney Experience to go on anything and Play Disney Parks to have any fun.

Great idea isn’t it. And have a flat phone by 4pm.

 

[sixbagelboy]

Seriously???
If you get to the Magic Kingdom in the morning you'd see it every time. You would even get to see the entertainers that ride the trolley up and down mainstreet.

Apparently I was mistaken. I am an AP and I don't rush to get to the parks in the morning. I guess by the time I get there (after noon) the trolleys aren't operating anymore. That said, I stand corrected. Everyone have a great day!

 

[MisterPenguin]

The purpose of the tracks is to increase the yield of ECV rentals from rolled ankles.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Great idea isn’t it. And have a flat phone by 4pm.

Disney is a step ahead......they're always a step ahead.

Question posed by a Disney Exec: How can we get more people to buy:

?

Answer from another Disney Exec: Let's make them download a bunch of c*ap, and have them play games on their phones......and we'll drain all their batteries.........

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Let me start off by saying I love the horse drawn trolley

Ya'know.....there is a type of "familiarity" with the way this thread opens.

 

[LUVofDIS]

If we remove the tracks than the strollers and EVC's win.

 

[Scrooged]

The purpose of the tracks is to increase the yield of ECV rentals from rolled ankles.

Scrooge approves of this business venture. Especially if it boosts profits. Work smarter not harder to gain profits!

 

[MAGICFLOP]

You can't people proof the parks... if you take away the tracks, they will just find something else to tumble over...

Spoken as someone who has tumbled many times (just not in WDW)

 

[UncleMike101]

Or people could just watch where they’re going

But....But......
That would require people, especially those younger ones, to put their portable "prison cell" in their pocket and actually look at what's going on around them.
Why, they might even notice that they're in the middle of the Worlds most popular vacation spot and are surrounded by other humans, and not the ugly little critters inhabiting their fantasy Internet world that mesmerizes them ALL DAY...............

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]