GhostHost1000
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News Monorail Red in motion with guests on board and doors open
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Hey now, I will use google to quickly look up some engineering feature then pose as if I were an expert to shame you!
I would say it is shallow and pedantic.
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Incomudro
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While I'm no fan of our lawsuit happy nation, the idea of a train door opening on an elevated system like a monorail - and one that is sometimes jammed to capacity with little kids is more than a bit nerve racking.
Additionally, this is in a theme park that presents itself to be pristine and on top of it all.
In contrast to say, NYC - a grubby city.
Buried20KLeague
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And if that was the case, why in the world wouldn't they have emptied that cab of the monorail and moved them to another? Clearly the train wasn't crowded.
Failures all around, here.
jakeman
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That would be my number one question.
RustySpork
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In the country of Nigeria, a 1.1 km Intamin P8 monorail in Calabar in Cross River State opened in April 2016.
peachykeen
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When I worked there (many years ago) “locking out” a door was pretty routine. Maybe not a daily thing but a few times a week. Normally the only issue it caused was you couldn’t load wheelchairs/ECVs/wide strollers at that door. Otherwise the car was loaded as normal. It was supposed to do the exact opposite of what happened in this video - the door shouldn’t have opened even if you wanted it to.
This video makes me embarrassed for the department I used to enjoy so much.
Monorail_Red
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This would have never happened prior to the new TCS system (aka automation). I'm actually surprised it took this long to happen, or at least be caught on video anyway.
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andysol
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I dislike lawsuits as much as the next guy, but they have their place.
Say Disney minimizes or ignores this like they’ve possibly minimized or ignored God knows how many other complaints.
Sometimes it requires a lawsuit to finally fix issues that have been reported that major companies simply brush aside as insignificant.
Take our old lady who ended up getting skin grafts from the McDonald’s coffee incident.
The problem was never “she spilled coffee on herself”. The problem was McDonald’s brewing and maintaining their coffee at a higher temperature than was recommended - while receiving dozens and dozens of accident and injury reports from the temperature of the coffee and spills. What did McDonald’s do? Nothing. Because the minimal complaints they received wasn’t worth the potential loss in sales or waste they thought they’d get from serving coffee at a reduced temperature.
So fast forward to the giant lawsuit that tarnished and branded this old lady as being sue happy (and ignoring she hardly kept any of the money and had irreversible physical damage). But what happened? The coffee isn’t scalding hot to the point it causes first degree burns within a single second of contact through clothes- something they knew for years yet chose to ignore before legally being required to change it.
So if you slip at a buffet? Tough luck- that’s ridiculous to sue over.
Something like this? Hell- If it means they are legally required to fix the monorails due to negligence, then why not? Will it take someone falling out of it to take action, or can it be prevented beforehand? These are things only lawsuits can answer.
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Santa Raccoon 77
Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
People are overreacting and the monorails carry thousands of people per day and things like this should be expected.
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Bender123
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People are overreacting and that the monorails carry thousands of people per day and things like this should be expected.
Incomudro
Well-Known Member
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
Santa Raccoon 77
Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
Sorry did i not use the right font for that to be obvious ?
tribbleorlfl
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@MisterPenguin It's funny you both mention the stickers and monorail pilot speech, I first noticed those when we we went last Tuesday. I mentioned it to my wife "Look at the new warning sticker, I wonder if they've been having problems." Pretty chilling coincidence.
tribbleorlfl
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I'm with you. I know I've been on the monorail several times over the years where a curve was taken a little too fast and everyone was jostled around or I lost my footing. Easily understandable reaction, especially if she has a fear of heights.
Rinx
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Most people do not realize those phones are there, sadly. Especially when they are busy in their phones. I worked in monorails back in '09 and it always baffled me that when guests left a belonging on the monorail most could not tell me where they were coming from or what color monorail they rode because, believe it or not, they did not notice they had colors.
NearTheEars
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OK, if you noticed them Tuesday, then it wasn’t a reaction to this, but obviously possibly connected to an overall problem.
Hopefully it’s addressed quickly. I’ve been in some pretty packed cabins and this could be extremely dangerous.
