Parking Trams Getting Equipped with Doors

[ADP]

In the "ho hum" news for the day the parking trams at Disney World are getting equipped with doors. First sighting of the new doors were seen on the trams at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park.

 

[safetymom]

They are supposed to install them at MK in December.

 

[mikelan6]

Please stand clear of the doors. Por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas.

 

[safetymom]

They were having problems with one of the pieces. If you look at the picture it was the top of the P.(basically where your arm rest was) That part was breaking.

 

[kaligal]

Oh, geez.

I like the open-air thing.

Another small disappointment.

 

[lugnut33]

Goes back to the person who fell out of a tram at Disneyland and sued the park.

Walt Disney Co. has settled a California amusement park accident lawsuit with a woman who sustained serious head injuries during a fall accident from a moving tram at Disneyland in Anaheim. Terms of the personal injury settlement have not been released.


The tragic Orange County, California amusement park accident happened in February 2007 while Qi Zhao was in the tram with her two sisters and a niece. They were riding the tram to their car in the parking lot.


According to the 48-year-old woman's California personal injury lawsuit, one of the sisters, who was asleep, fell off the tram as it entered a turnaround, which caused Zhao and the other sister to fall out of the vehicle. One of Zhao's sisters sustained minor injuries.


Zhao, whose head struck the pavement, sustained a fractured skull and serious head trauma. She was in a coma for a few weeks and now requires 24-hour medical care. She is getting that medical care in Beijing, China. Her amusement park complaint contends that the tram was going too fast.


Disney's lawyers disagree with Zhao's claim that the tram was moving at an unsafe speed. They say that the amusement park's trams cannot travel beyond 11 mph and that when the tram was making a turn, it was only traveling at 5 to 7 mph. They say that the tragic accident occurred because Zhao and her sisters failed to heed Disneyland's safety warnings.


Zhao's sisters have already settled their California personal injury claims with Disney.

 

[*NikkiBell*]

I am glad about this. I never liked the open sides.

 

[kpadalik]

I was at AK on Sunday and I saw one tram with the new doors on it. The CM making the tram spiel told everyone to absolutely NOT lean on the doors, push on the handle, or even rest their arm on the top of the door. Otherwise, the tram will disable. Not sure if that last part is true, buy she emphasized it quite a bit and repeated herself twice. They do look nice though - and definitely safer!

 

[Mickeyflower]

All DLR trams have doors. I was there in April, & as usual stupid people had kids standing on the seats, touching the doors, etc even though the CM repeatedly told them to stop. People also kept getting with strollers fully up & not folded. We a 6 month old & a CM thanked us for folding the stroller!!

 

[Golf4food]

All DLR trams have doors. I was there in April, & as usual stupid people had kids standing on the seats, touching the doors, etc even though the CM repeatedly told them to stop. People also kept getting with strollers fully up & not folded. We a 6 month old & a CM thanked us for folding the stroller!!

As with most complaints or safety problems at theme parks it generally goes back to people not following the rules because they are special and more important than the rest of the universe.