AllEars® Reader DonnaB sends this report:
Thursday, October 21, saw a new tram with doors at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. According to the cast member, that was the first day for them. They have them at Disneyland, but this is the first one for Walt Disney World.
You open the doors with the handle like a car door. Push the handle down and pull the door open (toward you) from the outside and push it up and push the door open (away from you) from the inside.
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I’m actually glad to see this. On our next trip, my husband will have to work a few days, leaving me to take my 4 children, ages 7 and under, to the parks by myself. I was most anxious about the trams because it’s a lot of little ones and only one of me. I hope they get these at MK and Epcot before our trip in a few weeks.
I do agree though that it’s mostly a pain for most guests. You should have enough common sense to stay inside a moving tram. Most people don’t travel with one adult and lots of little ones.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT WOULD BE ME…WAITING FOR THE DOORS TO AUTOMATICALLY OPEN!!!
I can hardly wait for the pictures to start rolling in of people standing, waiting for the doors to open, while the tram pulls away! LOL!
Saw this at Animal Kingdom as well … you could tell that not many guests were use to the door handles. People would just stand there waiting for the doors to open. The ‘back’ driver had to repeat “The doors do not open automatically. You will need to open the door your self. Pull down on the lever to open the door” at LEAST twenty times. She had to keep repeating it over and over.
I’m surprise as well that it has taken this long to get these types of doors.
Yes the doors are a pain. But Disney has had LOTS of people jump off moving trams over the years. I’m surprised it took this long to get doors.
While I agree that these doors do take up much desired space… I have witnessed several times where adults will allow their children to sit on a row by themselves, despite Disney’s warnings not to. I (even though I don’t have any children of my own) find myself watching those children like a hawk hoping they don’t try and look over the railing or anything that could potentially cause them to fall.
Does this mean that the opening you pass thru to get in and out of the tram is now smaller? I am not a huge person, but felt they were narrow enough before. This may be hard on some folks that are bigger in size, got a handful of packages, bags etc. Do they wait to make sure all the doors are shut tight before going. Wouldn’t this take up a lot of time? Waiting on people to properly get the door shut before the tram can proceed. We’re going in January, it will be interesting to see how this works out.
I could almost guarantee this is an insurance thing. Probably the insurance company Disney works with, that likely didn’t think it through, either required the doors or offered a cheaper premium for adding them.
Just a guess though
I encountered the doors yesterday at AK. We thought they were a decent addition, though it does eat up space getting in and out. We also have a stroller and didn’t have much problem getting it on, but a family with a double stroller/bulkier stroller may have a lot more difficulty.
We’ve also seen someone try and jump onto the tram after they pulled away from a loading zone. The cast member was literally yelling at the couple to stay back behind the poles and wait for the next tram (that was right behind us) and they proceeded to run and try and jump on board. Not safe! I’ll never understand people. I’ve also seen people try to deport before getting the go-ahead, thinking they could sneak. Dealing with the door will slow some of that down, I imagine.
I also saw these at the Animal Kingdom in earlier October – October 2nd, actually. They do take a minute to figure out how to use. I can see that they would make it less likely for something to fall out!
Things fall from the tram quite often, including strollers, bags, cameras, etc. This especially happens at places where the tram takes a sharp turn. (The U-turn turnarounds in the parking lots, the turns into and out of the TTC, etc)
While it doesn’t happen regularly, there have been many reports of people jumping from the moving trams to retrieve those fallen items, or even just to run back to their car rather than waiting for the next stop or riding the tram around for another loop.
So if you close off the possiblility of those items falling from the tram by adding doors, you lessem the possibility of people then jumping to retrieve them.
The new doors do not lock, so there’s nothing to keep a very-determined Guest from opening the door mid-trip and jumping from the tram.
I was at Animal Kingdom at the beginning of October and they had these up and running. I agree for people with strollers it will be a struggle to get on and off. I guess because I have been riding them for years it never occured to me that they really needed doors.
I was on the Tram at DAK a few years ago and witnessed someone try to jump out of the tram. Some lady had appeared to be arguing with the guy she was with and decided she was going to head back to the car while the tram was going at full speed. She managed to stay up for a few steps but her legs couldn’t keep up with her momentum and she fell forward and started rolling. She actually almost rolled under the tram while it was running but the cast member in the back was able to get the tram stopped in time. She promptly got up and stormed off to her car and wouldn’t stop for the cast members even though she was quite cut up. It was a scary moment…….. What happened to Common Sense?
Without having experienced the doors firsthand, I can’t give a educated opinion, but right now I don’t care for them. I just don’t see the necessity.
I just came back and do not like the doors at all, they have a strong pull to close and are hard to keep open to get through them. The opening is narrow enough then with the door trying to close on you I saw alot of people having trouble gettingthe folded stroller onto the tram. I had trouble trying to hold the door and assist my Stepmom who has bad knees climb up into the tram. My finger got pinched and if I was a child I would of been crying all the way into the park. Not a good way to start the day.
Was this really necessary? Do people regularly fall out of this thing?
trams with doors have been at Animal Kingdom for a couple of weeks
It looks like this modification has obstructed 1/2 of the step up into tram – which I already thought was very small to begin with. I pity folks trying to load strollers, bags, etc etc –
I don’t recall reading any injuries incurred while riding the tram – and I’ve never seen anyone jump off the tram while it was in motion.
Have I just never seen it? Does it happen?
I understand Disney wanting to reduce liability – however, I think a rope or a chain net would have made much more sense, would have meed much more economical – and would not have obstructed 1/2 of the step!
Just my opinion!
Do you know if the new doors lock when the tram is in motion?
We had one of these trams when we were at the Animal Kingdom on 1st October.
I’m surprised it took so long to get trams with doors!