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News Reedy Creek Fire Department responds to Monorail stuck on EPCOT line
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Disstevefan1
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In my opinion, the monorail served WDW just fine for the last 50 years.
You are free not to use it.
Kamikaze
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Don't worry, I don't.
The DLR monorail works for the amount of guests that want to use it and to get them transported in a timely manner. The WDW monorail does neither of those. Yes, it was much better at it when WDW had a fraction of the crowds, but that time has long since passed.
WDW (and theme park in general) guest flow is large peaks of crowds at certain periods of the day, and much lower crowds for the rest of the day. The monorail, being a fixed track with very limited capability for flexibility, is not the best solution for this.
Its not my fault that I don't live in Nostalgialand.
Disstevefan1
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Yes, I know, everything is better DLR. Thanks for the reminder.
Kamikaze
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That isn't what my point was. My point is that DLRs monorail has much lower ridership.
HooHooRobim
New Member
Homerun Colonel!! I was on it this morning. Received 2 lightning passes, $100 in gift cards and a cold Dasanti. All I know if you could hear on the radio one of the cars said stuff was leaking from the roof.
The Colonel
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Stuck for 90 minutes? Did they communicate with you while you were sitting there?
monorail81
Well-Known Member
Where did you see a picture of the tire? I’m missing it…
HooHooRobim
New Member
It was probably a 2 hour ordeal in total. Happend 200-300 yards from Epcot entrance. Driver communicated regularly and Guest relations people were good besides the crappy Dasanti lol. Luckily we were in car 6 with only 8 people. It was still sitting on the track a hour ago.
TrainsOfDisney
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That would apply to the skyliner as well correct? I think it was you that seemed to have an issue with anyone who enjoyed transportation.
The monorail system, when set up and run efficiently, is an ideal people mover system for a space like the WDW resort. If your answer is bus, bus, and more busses you aren’t looking at this realistically either.
esskay
Well-Known Member
Ah theres a simple explanation for that. It's for the nighttime monorail drag racing events that take place from TTC to the poly. 0 to 60 in under a minute!
Kamikaze
Well-Known Member
Fixed rail transportation systems without constant boarding are not ideal for WDW. I would think someone who goes by 'Trains of Disney' would at least admit that.
Skyliner is different because it is constantly loading. It doesn't have 5 minute periods of nothing happening (excluding breakdowns, obviously).
If a PeopleMover style system replaced the existing monorail track, that would be an immense improvement for the same reason as the Skyliner is superior to the monorail.
But yes, in most cases, buses are the correct solution for WDW.
I don't care about what the system looks like, I just want it to get me there as quickly and efficiently as possible.
TrainsOfDisney
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Well, I don’t admit it, nor do I agree with it.
Constant boarding and fixed rail have nothing to do with hourly capacity.
I noticed the monorails on the epcot line were only doing like 30 mph the last time I was there, that along with extended dwell times at stations definitely reduces the efficiency of the system though.
JoeCamel
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Robbiem
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The monorail is turning into the one from batman begins 
Seriously though the trains might be old but they aren’t that old. Plenty of places have trains which are 50 years or more old including the steam trains at Magic Kingdom and a lot of the London tube. Its not the age of the train its how it’s maintained that makes the difference you can keep it going but the older it gets the more it will cost you so it reaches a point where buying new is cheaper
Seriously though the trains might be old but they aren’t that old. Plenty of places have trains which are 50 years or more old including the steam trains at Magic Kingdom and a lot of the London tube. Its not the age of the train its how it’s maintained that makes the difference you can keep it going but the older it gets the more it will cost you so it reaches a point where buying new is cheaper
monorail81
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That is not a tire. That is one of the accordion bellows from between the cars.
JoeCamel
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I'm mistaken then