Train instead of Monorail

[octoberbarry]

Stagecoach. It's a transport system and an e-ticket all at once...:lol:

 

[lewisc]

The pod approach might work in the middle of the day, to less popular destinations like DTD. I doubt it could handle the volume of guests at park closing.

 

[unkadug]

Subway....just make the cars submarines and it might work.

 

[Nuts]

Check this site out. It was once rumored to be used to connect the Disney hotels to the parks: http://www.taxi2000.com/

 

[cloudboy]

Pods?

I know they are quick, but the whole process of having them drop off a pod, packing youself in that little container and having them come pick it up and ship it to the next destination seems like a lot of work, no?

Then again, you could always ship youself (and all your furniture!) back home, too!

 

[MickeyTigg]

A subway system would be an interesting option.

teleportation....it's the future!

 

[unkadug]

How about some TIME manipulation, that way it doesn't make any difference how long it takes to get anywhere... we just turn back time.

 

[Gorjus]

Check this site out. It was once rumored to be used to connect the Disney hotels to the parks: http://www.taxi2000.com/

Actually, that looks quite interesting, but again, we are back to having to invest a few million dollars per mile to build it. And of course when one pod breads down in the middle of a track, are all pods backed up behind it? But then again, how often does the monorail break down in the middle of a track?

 

[elliot_12]

I think they should connect the Wilderness Lodge to the existing monorail system, it isnt too far away and wouldnt hold the costs of most over things around the resort.

 

[ctwhalerman]

Subway....just make the cars submarines and it might work.

lol

For cost estimates of a new Disney system, here in CT we are spending about 3 billion dollars just for new rail cars to replace our current 1970s era cesspool cars, while thanking the New Haven Railroad for so overbuilding a century ago that we haven't had to spend much on maintenance for the tracks and electrical wires themselves. For Disney to build anything resembling a decent system from scratch they'd have to shell out billions (look at New York's Second Avenue Subway, which my grandchildren will still be dreaming about), and new stations, signals, sidings, maintenance and storage sheds, and personnel as well as ground preparation would jack up the price by millions more.

A light-rail system with a designated right-of-way (much like is being planned for Atlanta) is probably the best thing they can do, and the WEDway is simply a modernized version of that. If I recall correctly, WED shopped a version of the WEDway to be sold to airports and municipalities in the late 70s, and Disney shouldn't simply let that good idea die.

But lets face it, we're stuck with the buses for at least a decade more.