Originally posted by Fantasia Boi
There has been talk about adding Monorail routes since the late 80's... they've even gone so far as to bring in transportation experts, submit a few design plans, run some ideas past focus groups, and whatnot. They have researched this to death.
A agree with you... it'd be a great thing to have more monorails. And I know the guests would love the idea.
However... it simply isn't practical. Like Chad said... it's almost like throwing away money. Transportation is a non-revenue generating department. It doesn't make sense to drop an extremely large chunk of money into something that won't even come CLOSE to making it back.
Now here's something for those of you who are Disney Stock holders... if Disney were to invest that amount of money into a major transportation system like expanding the monorail -- that would seriously affect the blue chip status of Disney's stock... That's not a good thing.
Finances set aside... I know a lot of you don't want to hear this... but in Disney's instance, busses are just better. Resorts were simply not designed to handle a Monorail. Also, because of the way guest traffic flows... and the way it would have to be set up... I can pretty much guarantee you, it would be a NIGHTMARE.
I could go into a long indepth explaination on why... but for now, you'll just have to take my word on it, speaking as a Disney Transport cast member who has worked in both Busses and Monorails.
-Tyler-