How much building can the resort monorail take?

[mac_tlc]

I think the monorail capacity is maxed out. I find it less and less convenient every time we go. At our recent stay ay BLT, it took forever to get anywhere, many times needing to wait 2 or 3 trains to get on. They seem to always have to hold between stations.

The last few years, we have usually had a car and use it almost exclusively to go to the parks, whether we were at BLT or other DVCs.

Adding any more rooms on the loop would only compund a bad situation.

How about finding a place to add a resort on the EPCOT loop?


mac_tlc

 

[dizfan]

In December 2009 it got so crowded of people coming on the esclator going up to the Monorail station that everyone was getting pushed together, so others were screaming for a Cast Member to come and help. Well they didn't hear us so someone else hit the emergency button to stop it.

In October we experienced a similar scenario. The line was all the way to the escalator. It required several monorails to finally catch one. As we loaded on the resort monorail, they also stopped an express monorail at CR and started loading guests on that one as well.

Later in our stay we noticed the escalator was turned off.

As someone else mentioned, Poly DVC could certainly use the TTC (express and resort monorail, ferry).

At some point, it also makes sense for Disney to open up a second entrance to MK. GF could have a walking path to that entrance. It could be similar to BW, BC, YC entrance to Epcot. If Disney decided to add something like this, GF DVC would likely be a huge success.

 

[Who's your Mickey?]

I don't get the sense that the number of monorails on the line has been maxed out.

I spoke to a CM while waiting for a monorail back in July and asked him this very question. He told me that due to safety and insurance regs, they couldn't run more than 5 monorail trains each on the resort loop or express loop. In the event of an emergency, each train had to have exclusive access to a station to allow for an easier evacuation process.

He also said that there was a whole new laundry list of safety rules that were put in place after the fatal monorail accident the prior July. One of those rules are now why guests are no longer allowed to ride in the operators cab.

 

[Oglet]

I spoke to a CM while waiting for a monorail back in July and asked him this very question. He told me that due to safety and insurance regs, they couldn't run more than 5 monorail trains each on the resort loop or express loop. In the event of an emergency, each train had to have exclusive access to a station to allow for an easier evacuation process.

He also said that there was a whole new laundry list of safety rules that were put in place after the fatal monorail accident the prior July. One of those rules are now why guests are no longer allowed to ride in the operators cab.

Not too sure where the CM got their information from however using the logic of no more than 5 monorails for evacuation purposes it would mean no more than 2 monorails can be on the Epcot loop at one time.

5 monorails on either the express or resort loop would be a nightmare, it would be stop and go all the time.