Or in actuality they can remove the car from the line when they notice a spill and clean it. This isnt that difficult of a concept to grasp!
Maybe, maybe not. There may not be room for an unscheduled cabin to enter the 2nd track, and doing so could mess up the spacing of cabins. They can't advance the cabins on the 2nd track while a wheelchair is loading or unloading.
It'll take 30 seconds to clean out a fresh spill, and they'll have plenty of time to do that on the extended loop track.
Are you just somehow compelled to keep coming up with unfounded, nonsense “problems”? People bring food on the other modes of transportation without piles of refuse everywhere. Load is not immediately after Unload, it is on the opposite side of the station, providing time for a Cast Member to grab a few bits of litter. A gondola with a bigger mess can simply be skipped and taken out of service without a noticeable impact on operations. It can then be cleaned either in the storage/maintenance area or by a custodian who has hopped aboard for a ride.
The "extended loop track" is for boarding wheelchairs. Cabins are regularly diverted there for loading, possibly pre-designated cabins. The cabins are stopped there for unloading and loading. They can't suddenly move those cabins out of the way to make room for a cabin that needs cleaning. There might be room for one cabin between the switch and the unload position, or there might not be depending on the current state of what's already in there. And what if there's a cabin with a wheelchair coming in right behind one that needs cleaning?
And another method is they could clean a gondola like they sometimes do on the monorail, which i’ve seen several times. On the monorail they either block a section of a car or the whole car so guests can’t enter it. A cleaning staff with cleaning materials and/or cart then rides the car while it travels around the circuit and cleans up the mess. Same thing could be done on the gondolas. Cleaning staff rides the gondola alone, cleans it, and it goes back into service. There are simple ways to do this.
They unload it at the unload, and it sits for 30 seconds behind the one they hold for 30 seconds at load while they take 30 seconds to dump Smelleze on the protein spill and sweep it up in 30 seconds (or less).
I haven't seen any video that shows the entire extended loop packed with gondolas. But even if it's full, maybe that's what the red/green lights are for. Red means "Don't Load."
