I thought I heard the plan was to at some point route all traffic to the main studios parking lot entrance. It seems that entrance is never used and the Buena Vista entrance wasn't made to handle the traffic that it gets (with only one parking toll booth).
I thought I heard the plan was to at some point route all traffic to the main studios parking lot entrance. It seems that entrance is never used and the Buena Vista entrance wasn't made to handle the traffic that it gets (with only one parking toll booth).
Well, it would be easy to assume that this is the continued reconfiguration for guest parking at DHS and could have implictions beyond the necessary widening project. Expansion of the Studios perhaps?
I think there is definitely a mis-match of traffic using the second entrance VS the primary. The problem really goes back to the design of the park, with the main entrance not really serving the majority of the resorts and traffic heading to the Studios.
It will be interesting to see how it all shapes out, and if this is indeed just a first step to a larger reconfig.
I feel that when that traffic pattern was configured in the 80s, they didn't expect so much traffic to be coming from Buena Vista. The way the area has evolved, now they pretty much direct you that way for most everything. I can't really think of anytime that you are directed to the main entrance of the Studios unless you are coming from I-4. It might cost guests a few minutes, but I think it is time to simply switch some signs around and change the traffic pattern. Keep the Buena Vista entrance for just buses.
I've never really looked at how easy it would be to actually funnel all the traffic to the main entrance from the non-I4 side. Is it achievable without causing traffic issues on the redirect?
I feel that when that traffic pattern was configured in the 80s, they didn't expect so much traffic to be coming from Buena Vista. The way the area has evolved, now they pretty much direct you that way for most everything. I can't really think of anytime that you are directed to the main entrance of the Studios unless you are coming from I-4. It might cost guests a few minutes, but I think it is time to simply switch some signs around and change the traffic pattern. Keep the Buena Vista entrance for just buses.
Yeah, it was strange when I first realized you couldn't get from Osceola to the front entrance road.You would have to make a new flyover from the south bound World Drive and Osceola Pkway to get to the main entrance. When they reconfigured the World Drive/US-192 interchange with a combined Osceola Pkway, I thought it was horrible traffic engineering.
Reconfiguring the entrances would cost Disney money, widening BVD does not. BVD is owned and maintained by RCID.
Can anyone post a photo of the "main" DHS entrance? I'm sure we've always used the single lane Buena Vista entrance! Didn't even know there was another way in!
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