Monorail Blue evacuated due to piece falling off

[Aurora0427]

I take it that you don't stand in any queues for a long time in the summer in FL? Or maybe you don't go to FL when the temp is forecast to be over 95?

If the train is mobile, there are a couple of tugs that can be deployed to pull a train into a station. one of them is staged on the EPCOT line and one is at the monorail maintenance barn behind MK. Reedy Creek also has a 4x4 aerial truck bought to access monorail lines that may be out of reach for standard fire apparatus.

I am in agreement that the trains need to be replaced and are actually overdue for replacement. That blame is squarely on WDW, WDP&R and WDCo management.

Standing in line in the open air is different than being shut up in a monorail without AC. I get that there's ventilation, but still. They're completely different experiences- apples to oranges.

I live in Texas. I'm quite familiar with extreme heat, having lived here my entire life.

 

[JerseyJanice]

Gondolas cross over the East River from Manhattan to Roosevelt Island all the time in NYC although they are called trams.

They are perfectly safe.

 

[joelkfla]

Gondolas cross over the East River from Manhattan to Roosevelt Island all the time in NYC although they are called trams.

They are perfectly safe.

Not gondolas, aerial trams -- a common point of confusion. Both are aerial cable transportation, but very different implementations.

 

[JerseyJanice]

Not gondolas, aerial trams -- a common point of confusion. Both are aerial cable transportation, but very different implementations.

I did not know that. To me, they all look like skyway rides.

TBH though when I first read about "gondolas" being used as Disney resort transportation, I pictured gondolas like you see in Venice. I thought they were taking about boats. LOL!