So this is by the service area?
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So this is by the service area?
Perhaps this will help see transfer points v. passing through (and at CBR DVC, slowing down to pick up and drop off)...
How is this "cutting corners"? Yes, this is less expensive them a monorail expansion, but it still provides an efficient way to move people around the property. If they wanted to be cheap they could have done nothing and let people to continue to suffer with busses.
TiggerDad
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If you zoom in really close to the "L" shaped buildings, they look different from each other. The one on the left is roundy, so it is clearly just passing through. The one on the right (DVC) is flat on the other end. If the cable is just passing through on the way to the hub, it should be roundy too. My money is on the cables going on and connecting to the main DVC building, where you would switch from EPCOT line to the line down to the hub.
The DVC building has changed in layout since the permit was filed.
TimeTrip
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Interesting that the elbow by Boardwalk is the same size as the elbow at CBR DVC, but the boardwalk elbow won't have in-line loading and unloading... Unless...
TiggerDad
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The gondola building near DVC or the DVC building itself?
I'm kinda skeptical of inline loading and unloading at the CBR DVC since the building is so small. I'm having a hard time imagining queuing lines on both sides going both ways for getting on and off.
TiggerDad
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You have to have somewhere for DVC people to access the gondola
Maeryk
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If you come up the center of the building, it gets easier to imagine. Think on/off peoplemover, as well as the known tech of the cars being able to unhook from the drag rope to enter a slower load/unload queue.
TiggerDad
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subways?
I think people have gotten so used to rumors that are so early in the process that they may or may not happen, or they may not even be true to start with. This one is very different.
TimeTrip
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I wonder how they plan to do load / unload for both directions of the elbow. Maybe they'll only allow one way loading ( to IG ) and one way unloading (from IG) and there would be an exit path around the building and underneath the gondola line.
truecoat
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The thing is, they will probably save a ton of money long term by not using buses.
I agree, but I don't consider that "cutting corners".
Maeryk
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Generally not.. they get shut down due to flooding concerns.
Maeryk
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honestly, I think they could put in rockets that parabolically launch you from place to place, and some people would be like "Bah.. cheap.. it's not new monorails!"
Yeah, I get that part. Just... not enough room.
Supposing a counterclockwise rotation of cable, if I'm at the CBR DVC and want to go to Epcot, I have to enter the right side (outside elbow) of the building and wait in line. People coming from CBR South either stay on and head to Epcot, or they get off. So the Gondola comes into the station and slows down. People getting off have to turn right otherwise they'd bump into me. Then I can get on.
And if wanted to go to DHS, it'd be a similar process but on the other side of the station, where there is less room on the inside of the bend.
There's a lot of choreography there, and all in an elbow. Seems rather tight and crowded.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was another larger, straight building that hasn't made it to the public plans yet for the transfers and that elbow station was just a turning point.