Originally Posted By BwanaBobby Does anyone have any details on the bus system shutdown at WDW today. How are people getting moved?
Originally Posted By -em It was- They weren't unless they were somewhere with alternate transportation (i.e. Monorail/Boat) or if they wanted to pay for a taxi By the time I left property tonight the busses were starting to return to service so it was about a total of 3 hrs there were no busses running but I've heard everything was pretty close if not back to 100% service by park closings... Apparently during a routine check a suspicious package was found on the undercarriage of a bus which got the bomb squad called in and which ceased operation of the busses till they could be individually checked... It seemed (though I didn't honestly hear too much) that guests while frustrated understood and accepted it (though I also was at the WLodge which had boat access so wasn't completely isolated) Course kudos goes out to the transportation team, and the cast at DAK and the Waterparks which all ended up with extra hours tonight as they were kept open later...
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I'm happy to know that they were so ontop of the problem and could get done so fast. I'm sure it was frustating for the guest but their safty was there main priority. kudos
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^^^^ unfortunately they did what they had to do, and what I expect them to do....
Originally Posted By brotherdave What a sad, sad state the world is in that even the fantasy of Disney can get invaded by the mere thought of terrorism possibly striking. Major kudos to Disney for handling this promptly and correctly for the guests!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's great that they were able to keep the parks open a little later that didn't have boats or Monorails at them. It would definately stink to be stuck outside a closed park with no way of getting anywhere, so it's thoughtful of them to leave them open a little longer, even if the guests don't really want to be there any more that day.
Originally Posted By grlweatswchpstx Thanks for the info em, Good to know everything was handled pretty efficiently.
Originally Posted By MPierce The transportation team was amazing yesterday. They took every single bus back to the maintainence barn for inspection. I still haven't been able to find out what was in the package attached to the under carriage of the bus.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 The transportation team was amazing yesterday. They took every single bus back to the maintainence barn for inspection. I still haven't been able to find out what was in the package attached to the under carriage of the bus.<< I am hoping this was not a test run for those wanting to do harm to test the vulnerabilities in WDW security. If it was a test run, then hopefully WDW did such a good job that those wanting to do harm will look for an easier target because it appears WDW did an excellent job once the package was found.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 so now word is the device was some kind of transponder ? This concerns me some as to why someone would want to 'track' one bus in WDW...hopefully authorities keep working on this
Originally Posted By MPierce It's rather strange. It seems like something the company would do to see if a driver was making unauthorized side trips. I have a feeling we will never here the outcome of this story.
Originally Posted By jkayjs Regardless of what this turns out to be I'm glad Disney took it so seriously. This is esp relevent with the current terrorist investigation that appears to center around 'soft targets'.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< It's rather strange. It seems like something the company would do to see if a driver was making unauthorized side trips. >>> Aren't all of the busses already equipped with GPS for the spiels and sign boards? I would imagine that as long as they went to the expense to equip the busses with that gear, that they'd also use it to log what the busses were doing (even if they don't report back in real time) so that they could better plan utilization. In any event, if it's something that someone at Disney did but it didn't get communicated as widely as it should, you can be sure it will never see the light of day as far as the public is concerned. In addition to typical secrecy when it comes to things that are embarrassing, there's no doubt that "security" will be used as an excuse to simply not discuss it.
Originally Posted By MPierce Well I guess I was wrong (imagine that). We now know all about the bomb scare at WDW. It seems the device found under the WDSW bus was an old wireless tire monitor. While it's great that WDW reacted in a way that was very appropriate, I still have to ask myself a couple questions. Why in the world nobody at the maintainence barn was aware of an experimental device that had been installed in 1998? Also I have to ask myself how it could have been confused for a gps?
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 My guess would be that the maintainence crew that put it there is no longer working in that dep. And that no one gave a briefing to the new crew about the device.
Originally Posted By MPierce You are probably right, but you would think that someone in charge would have been familar with the device. It's been there for 11 years, and I'm sure that bus has undergone a whole bunch of routine maintainence inspections in that amount of time.
