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[danlb_2000]

Can we assume the Epcot station will be here?

 

[Jlasoon]

Can we assume the Epcot station will be here?

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Unless they're demolishing something somewhere else, You have to assume this is the area of focus.

 

[Clamman73]

Can we assume the Epcot station will be here?

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Well...this space is already taken...so probably

 

[Kamikaze]

Can we assume the Epcot station will be here?

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When was the last time this area was actually used for its intended purpose? 90?

 

[GeneralKnowledge]

I'm most excited about the fact that my favorite feat of Disney civil engineering is getting plussed. At the IG we already had a pedestrian bridge and water bridge crossing over two roadways and a canal. Now that we're adding in an aerial gondola to the mix it's even more amazing.

 

[TiggerDad]

Can we assume the Epcot station will be here?

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I would guess the right side of your circled area based on where the line hits from boardwalk and the comments that the gondola is post-security screening.

 

[Maeryk]

I would guess the right side of your circled area based on where the line hits from boardwalk and the comments that the gondola is post-security screening.

Do you really think they are going to set up TSA stations at the resorts to screen people on the way out?

 

[TiggerDad]

Do you really think they are going to set up TSA stations at the resorts to screen people on the way out?

Everything I have heard indicates that the security perimeter is being pushed out at each of the parks. I don't think TSA is involved.

 

[Kamikaze]

Do you really think they are going to set up TSA stations at the resorts to screen people on the way out?

Protip: Not all security is TSA.

They don't need to screen on the way out if the load station is inside the secure perimeter.

 

[Maeryk]

Everything I have heard indicates that the security perimeter is being pushed out at each of the parks. I don't think TSA is involved.

Sorry, the TSA part was a joke.

But unless they are going to screen at the resorts, which I don't really see happening, I don't think the gondola is going to land "behind" security, unless it's a single point to point, from inside park to inside park, like the express bus service is.

 

[Maeryk]

Protip: Not all security is TSA.

They don't need to screen on the way out if the load station is inside the secure perimeter.

Load/unload is the same station. That's my point. Which perimeter, because I may be confusing what you are saying? If the thing goes point to point from inside security to inside security, like the express bus, sure. But Disney effectively "loses control" of the person at the intermediate transfers and stops, so I don't see how, unless they screen everyone getting ON it from every entry point, it could come in behind security.

 

[Kamikaze]

Sorry, the TSA part was a joke.

But unless they are going to screen at the resorts, which I don't really see happening, I don't think the gondola is going to land "behind" security, unless it's a single point to point, from inside park to inside park, like the express bus service is.

Martin said very early in the thread that it would be inside the secure perimeter. So yes, they are planning on screening at the resorts.

 

[Capsin4]

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?

New resort is talked about for that spot according to other threads.

 

[TiggerDad]

Sorry, the TSA part was a joke.

But unless they are going to screen at the resorts, which I don't really see happening, I don't think the gondola is going to land "behind" security, unless it's a single point to point, from inside park to inside park, like the express bus service is.

I wish my TSA Pre-Check card would allow me to bypass Disney security. That would be a great perk.

 

[Maeryk]

I wish my TSA Pre-Check card would allow me to bypass Disney security. That would be a great perk.

Lol. I'm amazed their system can't handle the buttons they hand out.. someone didn't think that through.
Most of the backup at the screening at the parks is people who aren't ready, aren't paying attention, or don't know what they have in their pockets. At least, that's what I noticed two weeks ago.

 

[tl77]

Name one transit system that runs in hurricanes.

most other mass transit systems aren't easily and completely destroyed by hurricanes though, so building something that could easily be knocked out by a hurricane, in an area know for hurricanes... is like, not such a good idea. It's like building a house of cards in a wind tunnel

 

[Kamikaze]

most other mass transit systems aren't easily and completely destroyed by hurricanes though, so building something that could easily be knocked out by a hurricane, in an area know for hurricanes... is like, not such a good idea. It's like building a house of cards in a wind tunnel

Central Florida is not known for hurricanes.

 

[Maeryk]

most other mass transit systems aren't easily and completely destroyed by hurricanes though, so building something that could easily be knocked out by a hurricane, in an area know for hurricanes... is like, not such a good idea. It's like building a house of cards in a wind tunnel

you mean like a monorail? These things routinely deal with 75+ mph gusts _while running_ in Whistler, and are capable of sustaining much higher wind speeds when shut down, with the cars off the drag rope. Hurricanes don't generally show up out of nowhere and surprise people. They park the monorail trains, batten down the buses, and would, presumably, unhook the gondolas and put them in the shed for the duration.

 

[tl77]

They don't file permits for something unless they have the intention to build it. This is not just some blue sky rumor.

so you have something besides this one blueprint that you originally posted in this thread? that's what I've been trying get to the bottom of here... though I do think it's a tad suspicious that this alleged gondola station is roughly the same size as all the other monorail stations on property, is in the one location the could possibly build a monorail station at the Studios, and seem to be directly over the Studios resort bus stop, making it a pretty good transportation hub

 

[tl77]

Central Florida is not known for hurricanes.

uh yeah, that's just not true at all, there are still trees down on Disney property from a hurricane about 10 years ago