NWOhiogal
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2018
All the Skyliner haters are now validated. *sigh*
Looking at something and saying "I don't think that's gonna work" is not equal to being a "hater", which implies an irrational hatred of something that doesn't merit such a strong emotion.
A lot of us looked at the Skyliner system and asked "What if this happens? What about this? What about this scenario, how are they going to deal with it?" I did that was called a Debbie Downer and a Chicken Little. IMO though you HAVE to envision every single bad scenario, because asking those questions after something goes wrong is too late.
Disney should have asked, "If the entire line stops, how long would it take to evacuate every gondola?" and when they were told "3 and a half hours" should have said, "That's not acceptable, in midday Florida summer heat that's too long." and those involved should have either come up with an evacuation plan that was considerably less than that, or said "You know what? This idea isn't going to work for Walt Disney World. We can't put our guests in potential danger like that."
They didn't, and this the result. The Skyliner will probably be completely shut down until the engineers figure out what happened. It's a shame because it looks like a fun system to ride, but the method of transport is just too unreliable to be safe.