jknezek
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2016
Oh, I'm well aware. But in the meantime, what will the payout be on a lawsuit when someone gets injured the next time a chunk falls off? Or a door gets stuck open again and someone falls out? Or a door comes unhinged and actually falls off this time? A lot of ifs, sure, ones that I hope never come to fruition. But also very possible scenarios given circumstances. As rteez keeps saying, we're stuck with this system for several more years.
Fatality rate for the WDW monorail is 1 over almost 50 years. A single employee riding in the front car during a failure. Is there a risk of an accident to a guest? Yes. Have the odds gone up as the fleet ages? Yes. Is it anything close to a certainty that it happens? No. It is still incredibly unlikely. A part falling on a guest? What percentage of the track goes over people's heads? 10-20%, maybe? Probably not that much given how much track crosses the nothing land between TTC and EPCOT. If a door pops open and someone falls out, well, that's different from what happened in the last 2 door episodes. One where they were rammed by an inexperienced ECV driver, something Disney is much more likely to get sued over in the parks where you can hardly avoid getting tagged by a stroller or an ECV, and one where the door didn't close all the way, but wasn't exactly gaping open sucking people out.
I think you are over exaggerating the danger. It exists, but it's still extremely unlikely. New trains, or what passes for new trains, will come over the next decade. I expect the reliability of the current fleet to continue to sink, but I find it unlikely that a system of mass transit that has been one of the safest ever invented and run over the last 50 years is suddenly going to turn into a death trap...