TP2000
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to leave after walking to the Toy Story lot because the line was too long. Line of cars not moving. Ugh.
You do realize that your behavior is contributing to the overcrowding problem at DLR, right?
Going there?
Yes. Going over and over and over. Multiply youself by all the local pass holders who are free on any given day to pop in on a whim and you have the recipe for gridlock. I'm surprised that you're surprised when Disneyland is crowded.
Boys, boys, boys. You both have valid points.
Disneyland actively markets AP's on EZ-Payment plans to the giant SoCal megalopolis of 20 Million people who live within a 90 minute drive of Anaheim. And AP's should, theoretically, be welcome to visit the park they paid for anytime their AP is unblocked. And yet, Disneyland senior management has done a horrible job the last 10 years of managing and planning for 1 Million Annual Passholders to visit the park. And they know darn well that many AP's drive to the park alone in a car, myself included the 20 minutes down Taft and Ball Road from Villa Park. But single drivers taking up the same parking space a tourist family of five would take up in their rental Impala do nothing but gobble up real estate and take the parking/transportation infrastructure to the breaking point and beyond.
Tonight was a perfect example. The last night that several hundred thousand SoCal Select AP's could visit the park for the summer, 10 days after a wildly popular new E Ticket attraction opened. At 8pm tonight I noticed on the official App that Mission: BREAKOUT! was posted at a 180 minute wait and Radiator Springs Racers was at 120 minutes. Both parks were slammed. And traffic and parking after work was a nightmare. On the one hand, non SoCal Select AP's should avoid a day like today like the plague. But on the other hand, TDA executives should have been planning for this scenario 10 years ago, and they haven't.
In sadder news, the Eastern Gateway is still not scheduled for discussion at the Anaheim Planning Commission's next June meeting.
http://local.anaheim.net/docs_agend/ag_3vers/planning.pdf
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