Hi everyone, it's my first time posting on the boards having been a listener to the show for quite a while and a lurker on the boards but I was very interested to hear other people's thoughts about the monorail service.
DW and I have been going to WDW for 8 years now, and for the last two years with DD. I have been going for around 12 years prior to this. Last year we bought DVC and so this year stayed at BLT and were as a result using the monorail more than we had previously, for example to go to EP.
What we noticed was the service on the monorail was pretty poor, with it breaking down three days in a row at one point.
My thoughts on it were that as the current rolling stock was put into service in 1989, and that they are now in a position where they have one less then they originally planned for (which my guess would be means less rotation for maintenance) is it time for them to splash out on new rolling stock?
Like I say it may just be a coincidence of when we came across problems with it, so I would be interested to hear other people's experiences and thoughts. Would hate to see the current trains go as I think they look great, but surely at some point, given the amount of use they get, it becomes untenable to keep trying to keep them in service.
In a addition, given the recently announced flyover to make it easier to get to monorail resorts, surely the monorail should be in decent order? I appreciate there are other reasons for the flyover in addition to this, but surely it should be a consideration.
DW and I have been going to WDW for 8 years now, and for the last two years with DD. I have been going for around 12 years prior to this. Last year we bought DVC and so this year stayed at BLT and were as a result using the monorail more than we had previously, for example to go to EP.
What we noticed was the service on the monorail was pretty poor, with it breaking down three days in a row at one point.
My thoughts on it were that as the current rolling stock was put into service in 1989, and that they are now in a position where they have one less then they originally planned for (which my guess would be means less rotation for maintenance) is it time for them to splash out on new rolling stock?
Like I say it may just be a coincidence of when we came across problems with it, so I would be interested to hear other people's experiences and thoughts. Would hate to see the current trains go as I think they look great, but surely at some point, given the amount of use they get, it becomes untenable to keep trying to keep them in service.
In a addition, given the recently announced flyover to make it easier to get to monorail resorts, surely the monorail should be in decent order? I appreciate there are other reasons for the flyover in addition to this, but surely it should be a consideration.
During the time we were stuck our monorail driver was on the intercom and we heard in the background the control room talking and saying that they had no idea what is wrong and they they were going to reboot the main server.
