How confident are you in Disney's ride safety?

[Texowl2]

While not for a minute underplaying the tragedy that occurred at BTMRR in DL, I can not believe the hysteria of folks concerning safety at DL and that 14% are very unconfident about safety at Disney. Get a grip!!!

The reality is that the most dangerous part of anyone's vacation (or daily commute etc) is not at the amusement park or in the airport or on the flight, it is driving to/from the airport or whatever destination on your itenerary. Frankly, as far as WDW is concerned, given the shear magnitude of folks driving in Orlando in an unfamiliar location and/or in an unfamiliar car (if a rental) and/or the high probability of getting easily distracted, that is the part of the trip that folks need to most concerned about. During my vacations in Orlando, I have seen some absolute idiotic driving and I'm sure that the accident frequency in greater Orlando has gotta be pretty high.

 

[raidermatt]

Senor Pirate, I really wasn't sure what you were trying to get at with AV. The obvious seemed, well, too obvious. In retrospect, I agree with you... the ensuing comments did add to the conversation.

Scoop, there is certainly some evidence to back up what you are saying. Most, if not all, of the troubling incidents have occured at DL. The only caveat would be that most of WDW's attractions are not as old as DL's. But there's also the case of Space Mountain, which is actually newer at DL (or at least was).

Honestly, I do feel better in general about WDW management than DL or Burbank management. If indeed WDW mgmt is doing a better job of keeping up their maintenance than DL, it just further taints my opinion of DL mgmt. It also reaffirms my opinion that Burbank is simply clueless about the theme park business. If they did have a clue, this type of basic stuff would be common to all resorts.

On somewhat of a side note, its weird how incidents like this make you think of things you might have said in the past. Back when the news came out about the wood-rot that had infested the carousel, I remember raising concern about how close it may have been to collapsing. I know I commented it was unacceptable for things to get that bad, for safety reasons, if not for asthetic reasons.

Most of the responses (not from you, Scoop, or Pete) were along the lines of "stuff happens"... they're fixing it so what's the big deal?

My thought was if wood-rot is progressing to that extent without being noticed, what else is going on. Seems like a basic thing that would be caught in any kind of decent maintenance/inspection program.

But, since nobody had actually gotten hurt, I didn't press the issue.

Makes me wonder now...



Texowl2, after reading your post, I'm going to assume that you just skimmed this thread and didn't really read the posts (something we all do from time to time )

If after reading the posts, you still feel your comments apply, let us know and I'm sure we can further clarify.

 

[IndianaDVCMember]

The Disney parks are very safe, but still not safe enough. Until the injury rate is at zero, there is still room for improvement. Accidents don't "just happen". 99.9% of all accidents are a result of human error and/or unsafe acts. The other 0.1% are by act of God (earthquake, flood, etc.).

The Disney parks operate at very high volume. Zero accidents may never be attained just from the number standpoint, but a goal of anything less is unacceptable.

 

[SpaceAce]

Nobody has posted (unless I missed it, if I did I apologize) any FACTS regarding cutbacks about Disney expenditures on safety.

I would like to know if anyone has any facts to back this up or just emotion-fueled assumption? Please do not take this the wrong way, I just want to know.