PeterAlt
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What's with it here with people and fixing things!Fixed that for you.
The only thing I want to see fixed is Yeti!
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New Monorail Fleet for WDW
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The only thing I want to see fixed is Yeti!
PeterAlt
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It should be a park and ride fee. Parking and monorail usage included maybe.
Captain Neo
Well-Known Member
But he has the same job working with Imagineering so he would still know about projects that are approved for development.
Mike730
Well-Known Member
Wanna reduce wear on the monorail cars and track?
Wanna make the whole system seem more efficient without major monorail work?
Wanna make the whole experience more MAGICAL and exclusive?
Welcome to the future ladies and gentlemen!
It's called a Parking Garage, or a Parking Ramp for some of you midwesterners...
Believe it or not, cities around the world are ALREADY implementing this mind-blowing idea.
You park your car in the structure, and simply walk (or moving platform) conveniently over to your destination!
YES IT'S THAT EASY. AND WAIT! THERES MORE.
Most of the parking levels are in the shade! No more sweltering heat after a long day in the park!
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MODERN TECHNOLOGY!
Seriously tho Ladies and Gents, there appears to be plenty of room west of the park for a structure or two that would drastically reduce the time it takes to get into the park by eliminating the bottleneck between the parking lot and park.
OH and NEVER EVER charge for the monorail. Horrible idea. Pay to park. Pay to Ride. Pay to enter. Are you kidding? We pay enough.
Wanna make the whole system seem more efficient without major monorail work?
Wanna make the whole experience more MAGICAL and exclusive?
Welcome to the future ladies and gentlemen!
It's called a Parking Garage, or a Parking Ramp for some of you midwesterners...
Believe it or not, cities around the world are ALREADY implementing this mind-blowing idea.
You park your car in the structure, and simply walk (or moving platform) conveniently over to your destination!
YES IT'S THAT EASY. AND WAIT! THERES MORE.
Most of the parking levels are in the shade! No more sweltering heat after a long day in the park!
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MODERN TECHNOLOGY!
Seriously tho Ladies and Gents, there appears to be plenty of room west of the park for a structure or two that would drastically reduce the time it takes to get into the park by eliminating the bottleneck between the parking lot and park.
OH and NEVER EVER charge for the monorail. Horrible idea. Pay to park. Pay to Ride. Pay to enter. Are you kidding? We pay enough.
LongtimeReader
Active Member
Then don't go to ride the monorail in Tokyo, whatever you do.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
The Oriental Land Company does not do this by choice. The Disney Resort Line is regulated as any railroad in Japan and must charge a fare (same reason the Western River Railroad only has one station).
Captain Neo
Well-Known Member
It's not a major expenditure
Victor Kelly
Well-Known Member
DHS can lose the parking lots and put in a parking garage, Epcot the same, as well as AK. UNI did exactly that, removed the parking lot, built garages and built on top of the original parking lot. Even if they don't do a monorail, I am a big supporter of a TTA style transportation system. Each five or more car train can be designated to run to a certain area on property.
bigeternity
Active Member
This sounds like the kind of internet rumor that haunts Proctor and Gamble.
lebeau
Well-Known Member
#D'oh!
Aww, ponies! No, the reason I mentioned it is because many repliers seem to think that this was a comment by a CM out of sheer boredom, or simply for mayhem. As I said in my original post, I know how rumors can spread even among CMs so that even they believe them to be true. Which is why I was hoping that someone more in the "know" would be able to confirm.
LongtimeReader
Active Member
Correct, but it doesn't change the fact that it costs you 5 bucks for a round trip. Ouch.
PeterAlt
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Just wanted to share something cool that I've learned recently in my research that I think should be part of any new transportation system for WDW.
If you research Hong Kong or Dubia, you'll see that their systems have extensive use of enclosed (air conditioned) elevated walkways that go from the train stations to distances nearby and many of these have moving escalator-like platforms (that move at just over 1 MPH).
The system in Hong Kong was not planned that way but the land owners voluntarily built public elevated walkways and connected them to public walkways on the adjacent properties. Over 50 years, hundreds of miles of interconnecting walkways with no single standard for style or specifications have spread throughout the city.
In Dubia, it's been built in a more planned fashion with standardized styles and specifications. At one train station, for example, you can go to one elevated walkway that cuts diagonally across the street to inside the Burj Dubia (the World's tallest building) or you can take another walkway at a different elevated level that cuts accross the street diagonally as well but at wider angle and over the Burj Dubia one to inside the Dubia Mall (the biggest mall in the World).
Here's the deal. The airport at Toronto just installed the first high speed moving platform that moves about 5 MPH. The speed start slow at the standard 1 MPH when you board and reaches 5 MPH when you get to the center and then slows back down to 1 MPH by the time you get off of it. The escalator-like peices actually stretches as the speed increases and then contracts when it slows back down.
These would be ideal for use with the WDW monorail expansion project! For example, a monorail station for Typhoon Lagoon can actually be on LBV Boulevard so that the train doesn't have to actually turn into the park and thus save a lot of money on construction costs by building the routes shorter. Then, from LBV Boulevard, at the Typhoon Lagoon station, you can take a high speed elevated walkway to the entrance of the park. One might also be used from the Disney Boardwalk and elevate over LBV Boulevard directly to the entrance if DHS!
If you research Hong Kong or Dubia, you'll see that their systems have extensive use of enclosed (air conditioned) elevated walkways that go from the train stations to distances nearby and many of these have moving escalator-like platforms (that move at just over 1 MPH).
The system in Hong Kong was not planned that way but the land owners voluntarily built public elevated walkways and connected them to public walkways on the adjacent properties. Over 50 years, hundreds of miles of interconnecting walkways with no single standard for style or specifications have spread throughout the city.
In Dubia, it's been built in a more planned fashion with standardized styles and specifications. At one train station, for example, you can go to one elevated walkway that cuts diagonally across the street to inside the Burj Dubia (the World's tallest building) or you can take another walkway at a different elevated level that cuts accross the street diagonally as well but at wider angle and over the Burj Dubia one to inside the Dubia Mall (the biggest mall in the World).
Here's the deal. The airport at Toronto just installed the first high speed moving platform that moves about 5 MPH. The speed start slow at the standard 1 MPH when you board and reaches 5 MPH when you get to the center and then slows back down to 1 MPH by the time you get off of it. The escalator-like peices actually stretches as the speed increases and then contracts when it slows back down.
These would be ideal for use with the WDW monorail expansion project! For example, a monorail station for Typhoon Lagoon can actually be on LBV Boulevard so that the train doesn't have to actually turn into the park and thus save a lot of money on construction costs by building the routes shorter. Then, from LBV Boulevard, at the Typhoon Lagoon station, you can take a high speed elevated walkway to the entrance of the park. One might also be used from the Disney Boardwalk and elevate over LBV Boulevard directly to the entrance if DHS!
ewensell3
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ToTBellHop
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Parking garages anger the sink holes.But... but... but... THE SIGHT LINES!!!
FigmentsFangirl
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Now do it in LEGOI present! THE MODERN LOVE OF MONORAILS!!
Now the LATEST AND GREATEST in AESTHETICS!! :3 I'm so clever! XD BTW, yes, I did this on Paint.
Thrill
Well-Known Member
As a guest it would anger me.
The amount of money it'd cost to add those parks to the line could build a very, very respectable expansion. Possibly two, if WDI were to get its act together.
Besides, Monorails are so outdated. These days, it's all about Hyperloop.
I thought paint made them look very good and classy! XD