It's 31 I believe.
5 in the back row, and a row of 7 on each side in the back up high. Then 6 on each side down below. Some have an extra side by side seat behind the driver.
You're not looking at the bulk of the buses...most fit around 60 still...the articulated don't service that much of the property as it stands...most are the 2000-2010 fleet
Depends on the bus - I've also sat on buses where the back is 4 rows of 4 + the 5 bench = 21 in the back. The lower portion you are probably right is another 10-15, so I would agree actual seating probably more like 30-35.
But again,
you are helping prove my point - if the buses only fit 60, a resort like Pop Century runs a bus to Epcot and DHS every 15 minutes in the morning, well there's only 240 people per hour going to the park every morning, even if every bus is fully loaded. So if we add AOA, CBR, and CBR-DVC that's 1000 an hour traveling to both Epcot and DHS. Capacity will be 2,000 per hour. Not a problem.
Everyone make the assumption that a resort like Pop Century because it has 2,900 rooms that somehow you have 2,000 people an hour heading to DHS and Epcot. It's SOOO much less. Even if you have 12,000 people staying at the resort, they are split between going to 4 parks, the water parks, Disney Springs, other resorts, sleeping in, staying at the resorts, so maybe 2,000 people from Pop Century go to Epcot in a day, but some go for Rope Drop, some go for 10 AM, so sleep until noon, some just go for the evening.
The only potential congestion issue is when the parks close - but it's no different from what you have now when you see 500 people waiting for a Pop Century bus and you have to wait 3 or 4 buses to get back to your resort. You might wait 30 minutes in the gondola line.
Pete,
Spinning turntables would be problematic...and the volume of wheelchairs and strollers makes that a no go in my book. They take forever to board electronics. Every 20th care doesn't address that problem...it would have to be about 1 in 5 and that will drag on the system.
The other question is how problematic is it to have four or more stops on the circuit...do they bunch up more are they suspended in a holding pattern more often? People will not like holding patterns on the run...at all.
And final question: where do you store the skis?
The gondolas wouldn't have a spinning turntable - I was just using the loading method for Kali of an example how you can send cars out every 30-40 seconds even though the cars are actually in the load area for 2-3 minutes. The gondola would not have that.
I have no idea how they handle wheelchairs and ECVs, that's for those smarter than I, but a wheelchair every 5th car is unlikely to be necessary - that assumes one out of 100 people at Disney is in a wheelchair/
ECV, so at MK on any given day there are 4,000 -5,000 ECVs running around? And again, as I pointed out, they may just provide alternative transportation for ECVs, I just really don't know...being a skier does not give me a lot of experience with seeing them loading wheelchairs into gondolas.
The pictures I provided are of the Whistler Village Gondola that runs from the base village at Whistler/Blackhomb up to about 2/3rds up the mountain - a total length of about 7,000 feet (1.3 miles?).
It has a total of 4 stops along the route, one at the bottom, a second a short ways up the mountain, another about a 1/3rd of the way up, and then the one at the "top". At each stop, the gondolas detach from the cable and slow for loading and unloading. Then once they pass on to the next segment, they attach to the next section of cable and are on their way. While each loop of cable is continuous, they run independently, though because of the cars they can't really STOP one without stopping them all. However, they move very slowly through the load stations. They are easier to get on than say the moving sidewalks at an airport. (See pictures below - people walk their BIKES onto them.) Because of this, they rarely if ever have to stop, unlike a chairlift which stops frequently for loading/unloading issues.
