Operational change at Expedition Everest

[Rteetz]

 

[dmc493]

Unsurprising I guess based on others' comments about their focus on increasing throughput here. Might be the official death of the constant looping opportunity that Single Rider gave people, but I'm personally not too torn up about it

 

[dmc493]

Also makes sense, on my last visit a month ago they were merging LL at that same point, but had the right side of that room roped off, which I thought was odd. That decision makes more sense now

 

[Rteetz]

Unsurprising I guess based on others' comments about their focus on increasing throughput here. Might be the official death of the constant looping opportunity that Single Rider gave people, but I'm personally not too torn up about it

As someone who goes to the parks solo the vast majority of the time I don't love the move. Single rider was always great here. I get it tho.

 

[dmc493]

As someone who goes to the parks solo the vast majority of the time I don't love the move. Single rider was always great here. I get it tho.

As a fellow soloist I agree but trying to sympathize with the average attendee here

 

[splah]

do the evens only get the front of the train and the odds the back?

 

[HauntedPirate]

Potentially no single rider anymore? Well that sucks.

 

[GhostHost1000]

I was in single rider line yesterday there and it was very slow moving now. Nothing like before

 

[Cooldip]

Guests should not be sit next to someone they do not know in a situation where there is only capacity for two people.

 

[DCLcruiser]

This sucks. EE single rider was the greatest secret in the parks (sorry DVC). No need to waste a LL on EE, just single rider and wait a few minutes.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Guests should not be sit next to someone they do not know in a situation where there is only capacity for two people.

No one is forcing them, it is a conscious and understood choice reinforced by signs that state (more or less) - "Parties will be split up".

 

[dmc493]

Guests should not be sit next to someone they do not know in a situation where there is only capacity for two people.

This is how every roller coaster ever has worked. Any odd group will always have someone they don’t know sat next to them

 

[Kamikaze]

Guests should not be sit next to someone they do not know in a situation where there is only capacity for two people.

Sorry my guy, I don't smell (that bad!)

 

[Ayla]

What is the point of this change? How does it make ops more efficient? (Hint, it doesn't.) There is already a single rider line, which is more than efficient enough to fill empty spaces, without separating out odd and even-numbered parties.

 

[osian]

I think this is aimed at removing the apparent advantage that single rider lines give. There is no efficiency improvement but single riders will have to wait the same time as everyone else. If all parks had built in the facility to pre-sort groups in the first place then the single rider line would never have been invented.

It will also increase LL sales, obviously.

The easiest and simplest route to efficiency and happy guests would be to remove LL, that way there is only one line and everyone is treated equally.

 

[Touchdown]

What is the point of this change? How does it make ops more efficient? (Hint, it doesn't.) There is already a single rider line, which is more than efficient enough to fill empty spaces, without separating out odd and even-numbered parties.

To make the normal and FP line more efficient. There are 34 seats on each train. On average the SRL was taking 3 seats a train. 3/34=12% loss in capacity. Eliminating that inefficiency makes the regular line faster which allows Disney to allocate more LL spots that are desperately needed with Dino down (or if you want to think altruisticly, make the regular line 12% faster.)

 

[lazyboy97o]

What is the point of this change? How does it make ops more efficient? (Hint, it doesn't.) There is already a single rider line, which is more than efficient enough to fill empty spaces, without separating out odd and even-numbered parties.

It is more operationally efficient as you remove an entire queue that has to be managed. It also means you don’t need the physical space of the single rider queue in new builds.

 

[Purduevian]

What is the point of this change? How does it make ops more efficient? (Hint, it doesn't.) There is already a single rider line, which is more than efficient enough to fill empty spaces, without separating out odd and even-numbered parties.

Ever walk up to the single rider line and there's no one in line? I have multiple times (including 2 weeks ago). If single rider line is empty, seats go empty.

If they are able to fill those seats by doing the odd/even split, the standby line goes down.

I personally love the SR line on Everest... but to be fair this change will help more people than it will hurt.

 

[Ayla]

It is more operationally efficient as you remove an entire queue that has to be managed. It also means you don’t need the physical space of the single rider queue in new builds.

But if the SRL is part of the main line, then they have to pull out single riders to fill empty seats left by the odd-numbered parties.

That isn't more efficient.

 

[Touchdown]

But if the SRL is part of the main line, then they have to pull out single riders to fill empty seats left by the odd-numbered parties.

That isn't more efficient.

That’s why you have odd and even queues, two odd groups combined make one even group.