West Side Parking Garage construction

WDWtraveler

WDWtraveler

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Photo update as of Thursday, Jan 15. Construction update on the Buena Visa Drive overpass to the existing West Side Parking Garage. In the first photo, a concrete retaining wall is being installed on the far side of Buena Visa Drive with compacted earth behind it. Appears to be a ramp.

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The parking garage ramp is being extended, see below.

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A close-up of the ramp and retaining wall across the road.

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danlb_2000

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WDWtraveler said:
Photo update as of Friday, Jan 16. Construction update on the Buena Visa Drive overpass to the existing West Side Parking Garage. In the first photo, a concrete retaining wall is being installed on the far side of Buena Visa Drive with compacted earth behind it. Appears to be a ramp.

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The parking garage ramp is being extended, see below.

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A close-up of the ramp and retaining wall across the road.

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Cool, the parking garage has it's own picnic area! ;)
 
roj2323

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Drove by this today around 3. All i can say is what a mess. The parking garage is coming along nicely but the road situation is insanity.
 
Journey_On

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Texas84 said:
Bad storms today. The area flooded and traffic was being detoured through the garage to get around the flooded road.
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DBF and I were there on January 12th. The flooding was bad. We were walking from DisneyQuest to the garage, and for a good part of the sidewalk, I was in water just under my knees.
 
Adam N

Adam N

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The space indicators were working yesterday as well as the indicators saying how many spaces were available in each lane. Pretty cool and helpful. I know they're testing it still so idk if it's permanent but just thought I'd update on here that it does in fact work well haha
 
WDWtraveler

WDWtraveler

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Photo update as of Thursday, Jan 29. Metal mesh/screens were being installed on the north side of the parking garage, facing the service area of West Side. This side of the garage has the vertical bars spaced wider, so the screens hide more of the service area view. This photo was taken on the ground floor, opposite the elevator area.

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Slowjack

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I have to say I really like the space-sensing feature in the deck. Not just because of its practical benefit, but also because this is the sort of thing I've long associated with WDW. Like the pneumatic trash collection system, this helps foster the idea that the resort is a laboratory of future-living experiments. Disney should always be looking to include details like these. All that said, my first thought upon reading this was: will the sensors be properly maintained?
 
Kevin_W

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Slowjack said:
I have to say I really like the space-sensing feature in the deck. Not just because of its practical benefit, but also because this is the sort of thing I've long associated with WDW. Like the pneumatic trash collection system, this helps foster the idea that the resort is a laboratory of future-living experiments. Disney should always be looking to include details like these. All that said, my first thought upon reading this was: will the sensors be properly maintained?
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It's a neat system. At the Easton mall here in Columbus, OH they have the same type of system in the parking garages. It is really helpful.
 
drnilescrane

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tissandtully said:
I was there a couple weeks ago looks like this tech isn't on the first level, is that correct? I wonder why.
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The junction boxes are in the ceiling above each space and the displays have been installed for each row. I want to believe in the rush to get the first level open for Cast they decided to go back and do it later, otherwise they wouldn't have wired up everything.

From experience with other similar systems, the open level at the top will just have counters at the ramps instead of individual space indicators.
 
Jon81uk

Jon81uk

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Slowjack said:
I have to say I really like the space-sensing feature in the deck. Not just because of its practical benefit, but also because this is the sort of thing I've long associated with WDW. Like the pneumatic trash collection system, this helps foster the idea that the resort is a laboratory of future-living experiments. Disney should always be looking to include details like these. All that said, my first thought upon reading this was: will the sensors be properly maintained?
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I wouldn't say Disney are the testing ground for this tech, the Westfield mall in London has them and others have posted that other locations use them. I haven't found them to work well at all when parking at Westfield, if a floor looks nearly full but I can see green lights there is usually actually cars in those spaces and the sensors didn't see them. If I remember right as well it was meant to read your number (license) plate on the system over here so you could check an app if you couldn't remeber what floor your car is on, the never got that system working right either.
 

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