Alesia
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Providing transit information does not take much money.
Running smoothly? 30 minutes to travel 3 miles? I could almost walk that fast. Only 1 bus every 20 minutes? I guess it depends on your perspective. If the transit agencies in Seattle only ran buses every 20 minutes and didn't offer any apps to let you know when the bus was going to show up the CEO would be fired. I am used to having an express bus show up 1 block from my house every 7 to 8 minutes and only take 25 minutes to travel 7 miles from my house to downtown. During rush hours the bus is even faster.
If Disney had better planning when designing the resort it would have taken no more than 10 - 15 minutes from any hotel room to the front gate at any of the parks.
Providing transit information does not take much money, but developing it does. I think the flaw in your argument is the assumption that WDW buses run like city buses; They don't. They are much more fluid and flexible than city buses. They normally run every 20 minutes, but they can be adjusted when it's busy to run much more frequently, including having one bus right after another at park closing. I think you'll see how efficiently they run once you actually experience it.
And, for what it's worth, I have only waited for more than 10 minutes for a bus once. That was from the GF to DTD.