Not even remotely my point. I’ve said for a bit now that there was no excuse that tram service had not returned. But if someone is going to attempt to calculate the revenue and costs of parking operations they need to do it fairly and accurately.
What record stock price?
Parking meter change. No big deal but it is hard for most of us to even imagine that much daily income. Those parking lots may get repaved once every 25 years, but if they seal them yearly they would probably last over 50 years which I really think that with the exception of some reclaimed areas hasn't been done again yet. I don't have the absolutes on that but since there is not a lot of thawing and freezing it should still be original in a whole lot of it. Most of the expense you are saying just goes from one Disney pocket into another Disney pocket known as RCID.
Only Animal Kingdom has any original asphalt left. And even there it’s not the whole lot. The lots are repaved more often than you seem to think.
I still have a hard time feeling sorry for them. No matter how many times they have repaved which I still think is limited over the last 50 years. I'm not sure why you insist on defending them. They have profits in the Billions every year. That's money they haven't spent on parks, whether it be rides, paint or parking lots. I usually defend them when it comes to real maintenance things, but the amount they spend on a slab of asphalt is so minimal compared to everything else is hardly measurable. I will repeat, they have profits in the Billions or even if it is just Millions, it is still money not needed to run the business. They can provide services for paying guests. You have even said so. I find no redeemable argument to justify not providing that service. None! Even if I can identify every possible expense connected with parking lots and the use of trams to transport guests to the real money maker.
I’m not defending them. There is no excuse for trams to have taken this long. And they make huge profits off of parking fees. I’m not disputing either of those points. But. If you’re going to talk about the operating expenses/revenues of parking operations than you should be as accurate as possible and not intentionally/unintentionally ignore large expenses.
I'm sure, like myself, we tend to generalize about exactly how much it costs to run the parking lot services. The reason for that is we don't have access to the spreadsheets. For some reason Disney doesn't send them to us. What we do see is the profit number and know that there was money there to do things. The details, at that point, do not matter. Then it becomes a management choice, not a "gee, we're all out of money" so basically the need to have all the details of individual costs are not really relevant. Budgets are guidelines not necessarily based on real need, it is a management decision to not put priorities in place. We all seem to agree on that part.
The post I was replying to was from someone who literally attempted to make a spreadsheet showing revenue and expenses. If you’re going to do that and overlook significant elements then that is going to get pointed out.
It’s not giving people a general idea if you leave out over half the costs of operating the parking lots.
I guess I owe you an apology, I must have missed that or forgot it, your choice. Yes, if it is being listed in items and those items are not complete, then they should be pointed out. Mea culpa!
As if some in Disney really cared about what guests thought about anyway. Hey, remember the exec that said guests were all too fat and that smaller portions would be good for them. She said the quiet part out loud. Probably wound up with a promotion too.
That 'exec' was CFO. She has little to nothing to do with guest services.
And you don’t think that exact mindset follows it way down the chain with all flunkies and yes men in the executive and managerial sewers within TWDC?
I'm not defending the rude comment, but it was an offhand remark. Certainly there are execs looking to make cuts, but to attribute to them that they all think guests are just a bunch of fatties is a real stretch.
