No worries. The buses are fine. 40+ stays since '99....not always perfect but most of the time the buses are fine.
HAH, he tried. Some people are so deceitful. *eye roll*
I have little patience with 'excuses'...and that was a poor one! If he was entitled to a 'break', then another bus would have covered for him...at least I assume so. If he took an unscheduled 'break', it put his bus out of commission for about 20 mins, giving a lot of guests an overly long wait for their bus. I can understand waiting for up to 30 mins for a bus...but 45? Nope.
Getting bumped by a backpack is not inevitable. It's poor planning or a lack of forethought by the backpack wearer.
More car accidents than the other three combined.
Where were you left off that entailed an hour and a half wait for a bus? Disney Springs or a water park? Why wouldn't you just take a bus to a theme park and transfer there?
Disney is running buses constantly from approximately 6:30 AM until an hour after the last park or Disney Springs closes every.single.day with no reductions on holidays like most public transit operations. Being dropped off to transfer at a location 1.5 hours before buses start picking up at that location isn't a problem with operations or scheduling.
Again, Über. No, you can't pay with your Magic Band, but you also can't pay with cash. Download the app.
We took a bus from our resort to one of the parks suggested by the bus driver (he said it would be quicker than going to a park and taking a boat over)and were told to wait for a bus to the Beach club resort (breakfast ADR)--while waiting at the bus stop at the park for the Beach club resort bus another CM came over and told us those busses would not be expected to show up for an hour and a half so he took us to the beach club in a van and we were able to keep our breakfast reservation (we were a little late though)--NEXT time we will take the boat route (more reliable than the busses)
If it's made for scooters--pedestrians should stay out or be run over--those devices are powerful and can hurt a pedestrian who is unexpectedly struck by one--there just seemed to be too many of them (scooters) driven by inexperienced people in a crowded place with many little children who sometimes dart in different directions--
Should, but won't. Spend some time watching the dedicated wheelchair lane outside The Land. As for inexperience, well, many visitors who use ECVs to traverse the six-plus miles per day in a theme park generally don't walk anywhere near that much in their normal routines. Of course they're going to be inexperienced. It works both ways. Parents - especially those aware that many ECV users would be first-timers - should be holding hands of children that tend to dart in crowded places.
Mears is the official taxi company for WDW. Most likely, the accounting for using MBs to pay an outside company, combined with already providing on-site transportation, makes that suggestion not reasonable from the business POV.
If you needed to get to YC, why not just get off at BC and walk over? The resorts are connected...makes no sense to stay on a bus that is going to have to make a detour back.
I'm curious as to what your resort was, what park they sent you to. Did you go to DHS? That's the only thing I can think of! Boats might not have been running that early. If that's where you were, I would have just walked.
I'll have to disagree with you on this one. Most ECV riders/drivers are pretty good. I've actually spent time with a friend who uses one all the time. We spent a few hours in Epcot...man, that was eye-opening for me!!! It's almost as if she had an invisibility cloak on..people just walked in front of her, they would stop and start talking to each other, they would dart in front of her...it was mind boggling. I have been to WDW 40+ times so far....most of the issues I have seen with ECVs are due to pedestrians not watching where they are going.
