lifeguard1020
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Possibly because if they make that diagonal route it will cut off (or make more difficult) any future plans for that specific plot of land?
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Possibly because if they make that diagonal route it will cut off (or make more difficult) any future plans for that specific plot of land?
Kamikaze
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Values do not have any of the DVC-level benefits currently. They would have to go all out to plus the resorts to justify DVC.
Kamikaze
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If the vehicles seat enough to make this viable (10+), then you're going to have people going to different endpoints. Thus, no 'automatic switching' and yes to transfers.
Maeryk
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I think you are looking at it as separate loops from building to building. The way I'm seeing it (granted, I may be wrong) is one long loop that runs from the southern end to the northern end, and a second that runs from the CBR intersection to DHS. Thus the only actual "transfer" necessary would be there, if you are coming from north or south. But if you want to go from, say, AOA to Epcot, no transfer.. just ride through the stations to epcot, just like you would on the resort monorail loop right now.
Tim Lohr
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Well another fan site seems to be pretty sure too, but they have it going from Caribbean Beach to the used expansion pad between Germany and China... which is a much shorter distance then what you guys have mapped out ...personally I'm not getting my hopes up for a gondola system in a part of the world known for hurricanes, there have been many big ideas for WDW over the past 50 years, many of which never happened for one reason or another
Tim Lohr
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this looks like the least efficient mass transit system, in the history of mass transit systems
peter11435
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They're wrong
lazyboy97o
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The building footprints are public record... Maybe pay attention to how this was all put together.
TimeTrip
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From what I can gather, no... the line from Epcot goes "through" CBR DVC. In other words, people can get off as they please, and on as long as there is space, and the gondola continues on in either direction.
This is about the only part of the setup that might require throttling downstream. i.e. if folks getting on at CBR South take every cabin, and are heading to epcot, noone at CBR DVC could get on, so they will need some way to throttle the people getting on at CBR South in this situation.
Ditto (but likely much less of an issue) for people coming back from epcot starving folks as CBR DVC trying to get to CBR South for onwards to HS or Pop/AoA
truecoat
Well-Known Member
Name one transit system that runs in hurricanes.
threelittlepigs
New Member
this is from another blog from 2013....seems they were on to something...look familiar?
DisneyOwl12
Member
That's what I was thinking originally, too, but when Marni verified in post 1183 that each stop would require transfer, I assumed the load/unload at CBR DVC was considered a stop and, thus, would require a transfer as well. It just confused me. The stops, though, must just be the end points of each of the three lines, which will apparently all share a common end-point at CBR South.
I can only assume they mistakenly took the old proposed link from the CBR to Epcot and got confused.
The gateway route is 0.8 miles longer and is cheaper to operate.
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They don't file permits for something unless they have the intention to build it. This is not just some blue sky rumor.
One transfer at CBR South.
PizzaPlanet
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Gondolas sound like a fun and unique way to travel around WDW imo.
lazyboy97o
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Don't you know? Princess Marni just makes all this stuff up.