Parking lot at Disney's Animal Kingdom about to expand ahead of the park's new additions

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pheneix

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Mad Stitch said:
Has parking ever been, or come close to capacity at AK to require this?
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Yeah. Parking there has been a royal mess ever since Potter opened and number of drive in guests jumped through the roof. Same problems at MK with their parking lot to park transit system needing to expand to handle the surge of drive ins.

About time they put some of that parking toll money to work!
 
Yensidfan21

Yensidfan21

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Avatar + Parking lot = More people?
 
mm121

mm121

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Does any one know how many spaces this is adding?

Kman101 said:
True, I just think it would help free up some room to have the garages, but I get why they aren't the preferred method. I also don't know that I necessarily would love to see a big old boxy garage in "front" of the parks either.

And very true that the load/unload in the garages would probably be a disaster, but somehow doesn't Disneyland do just fine with their parking garage?
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I think the design of the disneyland garages is much more conventional in nature widing up to the top, haven't been so I've only seen it on google earth.

the design of the garages at universal seemed to work just fine when i went on a super super buys night of halloween horro nights, the main backup was at the toll plaza to pay for parking.

garages do cost tons more, and i'm sure depending on design they can be more hazardous for pedestrians.

example the garages at the new marlins park in miami, the way they were designed is TERRIBLE for all arriving at once traffic. widing up single file floor by floor. and a serious mixing of pedestrians crossing the cars widing to the top. would be very easy for a kid to get run over. and its confusing the way that some cars park angled up hill while others park angled downhill.

the garages at disney springs appear to be taking more of the universal approach, of having flat levels with ramps primarily around the outside edges. vs what i belive to be the disnyland set up. and VASTLY different and much safer and less confusing than the marlins park garages.


doctornick said:
Haven't used them myself (always stayed walking distance when going to DLR), but I've been under the impression that the parking lots at DLR are relatively nightmares to get out of and less than ideal to get in.

I don't really see much reason to convert to a parking deck unless surface lots are simply not viable due to a need for space. The only place that has that potential issue is DHS (especially if they were to want to expand the park into some of the current parking area). Even at DHS, it might be possible to add surface lots if they are willing to convert some currently unusable wetland (which might be more costly than simply building a deck).

Also, it's worth considering that visually a parking deck is more intrusive on the parks and the ambiance. It's a minor point, but I think it has some minimal value.

It's worth noting that Disney is building parking decks at DTD. Of course, that would tend to have people coming and going at different times, so it's more viable.
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DHS does have a parking garage in back for cast. so its not completely against disny prior to disney springs to build garages they just choose not to.

in most cases at disney world its really not necessary.

disney springs is diffeernt though since some people want to go for just a short time, and others stay a long time, so the traffic is much more random, and at a shopping complex theres definitely more of an expectation of being closer, and their aren't trams or anything, along with the land crunch with doubling the size


Tom Morrow said:
I wish they would plant some trees around the DAK lot. I know this is a stylistic choice to provide a drastic change of atmosphere entering the gates, but I never liked how barren the DAK lot looks.
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that would be great it does look very bare, which is vastly differnt than the inside of the park
 
themonkeyisthesultan

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As I stated in another thread, my guess is that this has more to do with the loss of cast member overflow parking backstage than immediate increases in crowd levels (or more people driving cars) due to Avatar construction. They used to have guests park in the cast parking lot on busy days and have cast members park in the formerly empty field behind the Rainforest Cafe. Now that that area is full of construction equipment and large piles of dirt, they can't force the cast members out.

Pure speculation now, I would guess that closer toAvatar's opening, they'll build new cast member parking elsewhere and convert the current cast member into guest parking. That's when we'll see a Na'vi/Banshee/Thanator lot.
 
FutureCEO

FutureCEO

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All the parks have bare lots.....not a green thing to be seen for miles and miles.

Don't go parking at the Providence Place Mall...whoever made that garage should be stoned
 
MarkTwain

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Tom Morrow said:
I wish they would plant some trees around the DAK lot. I know this is a stylistic choice to provide a drastic change of atmosphere entering the gates, but I never liked how barren the DAK lot looks.
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RayTheFirefly said:
Am I the only one that wishes Disney would have trees in their parking lots? I don't get why they can't have some periodically placed planters throughout them just to add a little shade and make them less ugly (as well as nicer for the environment).
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Same. Some of the lots are better, with at least a row of trees or two to break it up (DHS and MK), but the DAK one really is just an ocean of concrete. I get the design intent, but I'm not sure it works the way they wanted it to. I feels like it actually has the opposite result; it makes the park feel more artificial and like a built theme park-ish environment. A row of trees here or there might really help.
 
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Admiral01

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doctornick said:
Haven't used them myself (always stayed walking distance when going to DLR), but I've been under the impression that the parking lots at DLR are relatively nightmares to get out of and less than ideal to get in.

I don't really see much reason to convert to a parking deck unless surface lots are simply not viable due to a need for space. The only place that has that potential issue is DHS (especially if they were to want to expand the park into some of the current parking area). Even at DHS, it might be possible to add surface lots if they are willing to convert some currently unusable wetland (which might be more costly than simply building a deck).

Also, it's worth considering that visually a parking deck is more intrusive on the parks and the ambiance. It's a minor point, but I think it has some minimal value.

It's worth noting that Disney is building parking decks at DTD. Of course, that would tend to have people coming and going at different times, so it's more viable.
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Disneyland's parking garage is actually quote wonderful. I prefer parking at Disneyland to anywhere at WDW.

Garages are much more expensive, but my car stays nice and cool and I find it easier to get to the park from the one large garage then from the dozen surface lots at each WDW park.
 
Finallyinflorida

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Tom Morrow said:
I wish they would plant some trees around the DAK lot. I know this is a stylistic choice to provide a drastic change of atmosphere entering the gates, but I never liked how barren the DAK lot looks.
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Seriously! Its like a desert of pavement. I know its Florida, I know it's going to be hot/humid, but a few trees might help create an illusion of coolness!!! By the time we walk in, it takes awhile to get back in the Disney spirit.
 

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