Monorail - Ride in front?

[Brad Bishop]

Has anyone asked recently to ride up front on the Monorail? The reason I ask is that you used to be able to do this and since that accident around 5 years ago they wouldn't let you but a week back I happened to snap this picture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bishopland/14227605251/

Someone's up front. It may be just a cast member riding to their next post or it may be that someone asked and they're letting guests up front again.

So, has anyone asked in, say, the last month or so?

 

[TimothyG]

Not sure why there's an extra person up front and can't really tell what they are wearing. It's probably a CM.

The policy is that you still can't ride up front anymore. Personally, I don't think that will change. It's distracting to the pilots so they don't want to risk having a pilot make a mistake while distracted again.

 

[Brad Bishop]

Not sure why there's an extra person up front and can't really tell what they are wearing. It's probably a CM.

The policy is that you still can't ride up front anymore. Personally, I don't think that will change. It's distracting to the pilots so they don't want to risk having a pilot make a mistake while distracted again.

Yes, I suspect it's a CM. It's a shame that they changed the policy. The guy who died wasn't distracted as there was no one in there with him when it happened. It was someone on the ground operating the switches.

I always figured it was the optics of having a guest crushed in such a situation that they wanted to avoid. The problem is, you can die on just about any ride with the right circumstances. It's rare, but it can happen. They went for nearly 40 years without an incident and with letting guests ride up front.

I don't ask as I don't want to pester them, but if they changed the policy back, it'd be nice to know.

 

[kmb584]

Has anyone asked recently to ride up front on the Monorail? The reason I ask is that you used to be able to do this and since that accident around 5 years ago they wouldn't let you but a week back I happened to snap this picture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bishopland/14227605251/

Someone's up front. It may be just a cast member riding to their next post or it may be that someone asked and they're letting guests up front again.

So, has anyone asked in, say, the last month or so?

As far as I know they have not lifted the no guest policy so I'd lean towards that extra person being a CM. When we were there at the beginning of month we had multiple monorail rides where there were 2-4 CM in training riding up front with our pilot.

 

[kastoney]

I got to do this several times as a kid and didn't realize they had stopped it. Bummer for my daughter. It was definitely a childhood favorite.

 

[Ariel on Land]

Yeah, I was disappointed one day on a previous trip, my boys were almost 4, I think, so they'd have loved it, but we were told it was stopped due to security purposes.

 

[mdsd8700]

Yeah, I was disappointed one day on a previous trip, my boys were almost 4, I think, so they'd have loved it, but we were told it was stopped due to security purposes.

If anyone happens to make to DLR you can still ride the in the front car of the monorail. The monorail in DLR is a different experience than the one in WDW as it more like an attraction that a mode of transportation, but it still fun sitting up in that first car.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

No guests up front.

It's not that the guy driving the monorail was or was not distracted. He did not cause the accident. It's the fact that if he had happened to have guests in the cabin with him, they would have also been killed.

You can still ride in the cab at Disneyland.

 

[DebbieB]

Disneyland's monorails are new, hopefully built stronger. They only have one track.