Two note... one, the Express monorail used to actually close in the afternoons back in the 70s. During the downtime is when they'd so checks and things. And two, one day we had a resort-wide power outage (Literally - even the hotels) so only the ferry boats were running (I think there was just two then). The crowd surged out to leave and boy, the FB could not handle it solo (since it was unexpected the TTC to MK trams were not operating to staffed). Nightmare day.
Or, they could sell "day" or "full stay" packages that include unlimited transportation if they really have to charge to improve their crap.
It just doesn't make sense operationally when there's literally no other way to get from the parking lot to the front gates of the Magic Kingdom.
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Yeah they definitely don’t do that with the WDW monorails. I’ve always thought it was strange they don’t do a full tear down/rebuild refurbishment. They do for lots of attractions. As you said in you’re other post it’s not maintenance fault, but there has been a steady decline in maintenance over the years. It’s not to say they’re doing less work but they have more important things to fix and other things get neglected. Social media is another big factor, the door open incident was hardly the first time something like that had happened, but little things like that are far more likely to get more attention now. These things are going to continue to happen and the attention on the monorails is only going to get more critical. Everyone basically has their phone out expecting and ready to record video or take photos when they break now.
I don't think anyone is faulty in the maintenance crew. I think their fault of the people who make the budgets for maintenance. Maybe the maintenance crew needs to be a little bit bigger. Maybe the parts supply a little bit more generous. Maybe the train should be scheduled for repainting far before they look like monorail Coral today. This is an undoctored photo taken today of monorail Coral.
Not that I disagree with anything you said, but I think what you may be seeing here may be a protective film they put over the doors. I believe they put that on the doors they use for wheelchairs to minimize the damage from CM’s scratching the trains with the ramps.
Nope, but, he did what most of those people didn't do... died in an accident while doing his job at WDW. And wasn't making millions a year in the process.
I don't think it's any different than asking who Richard F Irvine, General Joe Potter, or Admiral Joe Fowler are.
This is why I think it’d be prudent to expand the fleet to something like 14 trains, even if those were the only fully new trains. You would then be able to have one train down for extended work, one train down for more seasonal work and a third train down for minor work / backup while still keeping 11 trains on the beam.
