Originally Posted By mrkthompsn What's this all about? <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/0jbsg" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/maps/0jbsg</a>
Originally Posted By sjhym333 Yes, the Walt Disney World Airport is tagged incorrectly. The location is actually off of the MK parking lot. The airport was never really an airport and it was originally called STOLport (short take off and landing port) The idea when WDW opened was they expected tourists would fly into WDW on puddle jumpers from around the state. It never really took off. A more interesting thing is that in the 90's, Disney installed a test thing on the runway that the debated about using on the entrance road near the MK toll plaza. They embedded slightly raised concrete slats of varying thinkness in the road. Similar to the things on the side of the road to wake you up if you start moving onto the shoulder. The went across the entire lane. When you drove over them the sound that they made were Zip a Dee Doo Dah. It was very ingenious and pretty amazing. I used to take new CM's and family members on the runway in my car and show them. I am not sure why it never made it onto the actual road but it was always a fun idea that actually worked. I haven't done it in several years now that Imagineering is using the space and security got beefed up and I am not sure that it is still there but I expect it might still be.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn I recall they were planning an international airport south of I-4 as well
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Lots of things are in the wrong place on Google Maps. Just move the window down a little bit, and you'll see that Via Napoli is apparently in the middle of the Epcot parking lot. For being so highly rated, it always amazes me how many easily noticable errors they have in their maps (and that often are in the right location in Google Earth)
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad Sjhym33 that music in the road sounds awesome. I wish they would put some of those where everyone could hear it. That would be one of those extra little details that my family would love.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros A few years ago a car company (Honda?) did the road thing on a stretch of pavement in rural California, and played part of the 1812 Overture. It was in a pretty remote location, so not many people went to it, but it was done on a regular street, open to the public.
