I'm curious what light rail system you're referring to 1,400 passengers is a very large train. Also it's worth noting capacity isn't tied to rail format, you can have a Monorail that has very high capacity and a light rail that has very low capacity and vice versa. Also as you were initially referring to the Vegas monorail, that system was designed with the trains being able to couple together to double the capacity of the system if needed.
That's called the holiday hiring freeze being lifted. You guys will try and skew anything.
From looking online it seems those trains have a capacity of 176 per car and operate with up to 3 cars. So yes they are large for light rail, however they are not quite equivalent to 2 Disney monorail trains and have a lower capacity than the full potential of the Vegas monorail trains. I agree dumping large sporting venues or even theme parks into a transit system is never going to go well. MK has the advantage of two lines pulling guests in. That's essentially 8 trains with a capacity of 360 each every ten minutes. You could round that down to about 2,500 every ten minutes or 15,000 an hour. For the MTA line you speak of to be equally efficient to the MK monorail it would need to have 2 platforms with trains departing every 4 minutes. If the MTA line could upgrade to the current Bombardier monorail they would increase their capacity significantly.Maryland MTA. They are larger than normal trains. And monorails tend to be lower capacity than heavy or light gauge trains by nearly virtue of the definition of the train.
We already know monorails are swamped at MK at closing... a football stadium is just as bad or worse. 70k fans... at once.
I wish I could find some photos of the platform here after a game.... it's pure mass of bodies and stuffing the trains as if we were in Delhi
Are you kidding? This is the government that came out recently saying they can't endorse the effectiveness of flossing because there haven't been any studies on it...
The MK was just used as a reference to illustrate what it means to have thousands approach a platform at the same time. Disney runs 4 trains, but never comes anywhere close to stuffing the cabins near capacity... especially with the stroller brigade. (and each train isn't pulling a new full load every 10mins). Plus their cab design is not optimized for standing.. so the MK system is especially weak for these peak loads. Yes, they get the advantage of both the Resort and Express loops (which LV doesn't..) and still can't handle the full load of the park exit. LV if I recall have an open floor plan with edge seating IIRC making their cabs more suitable.. but still something like 220 per train. So close to 1 light rail car... but the light rail is running 3 of those per train 
Was the earfull tower not also "iconic" ?
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I rounded down a little with those number because like you said there are lots of strollers and a lot less standing. If we look at just one section of a Disney monorail car there is seating for 10 and standing for 20. Let's assume only half the standing room is being used that's 10 seated and 10 standing so 20 x 12 sections per train = 240. That's a pretty low number I would say they usually get far closer to 300 and occasionally get close to the 360 capacity but let's go with 240. Now there are 4 trains potentially on each line so that's a total of 960 on express and 960 on resort. Express trains typically cycle at peak around 9-10 minutes, 11-12 minutes is considered poor performance so let's assume 5 laps per hours. Resort trains typically cycle 12-13 minutes at peak and 14-15 is considered slow. So let's just say 4 cycles an hour. So 960x5= 4,800 for express and 960x4= 3,840 for resort. So the MK monorail even in the most conservative estimate can take in a total of 8,640 people per hour. That's easily double the number you stated and the likely real world number should definitely be higher.But the original comment was about Vegas... not MK
I bet MK averages more like 36-40 people per train instead of 60.. and if a train only makes 2 loops an hour.. that would only net you about 500ppl an hour per train. Or 4000 people an hour for 8 eight trains. Even if you said they made 3 loops an hour.. that's still a pitance. And back to LV... they only have 9 trains total.. and 1 track to use in the 'leaving' direction so even tho their stock carries far greater # of people than Disney's.. even at 220 people per train.. dispatched every 4 minutes.. it's still pretty tiny compared to the 10s of thousands of potential riders.
I am not at liberty to talk about the details of what happened that night. Your a little off on your explanation ( not trying to be mean to you) but as an FYI Monorails are considered "transportation " at WDW. They are under the same umbrella as busses and watercraft. Each has its own department under that. I will say the young man that lost his life was a hero. He was attempting to get the guest out of harms way. Very sad.
Easy. Put a cupcake with a strobe light in every room at the Poly/Grand Floridian/Contemporary.
I under estimated that badly (noting it was a estimate)
Not as iconic. But Spaceship Earth/Cinderella Castle, for example, are things I think they'd never demolish. Change, maybe. But not demolish.
