Anyway, with so many cast members laid off that no one is left to do the work, the job of removing the curbs from Town Square was let out for contract. Because it would obviously incapacitate the park if all of Town Square was ripped up at once, project management made it very clear that the work was to be done only half the square at a time.
Unfortunately, the instructions stopped there. While project managers were almost certainly thinking "east and west", the contractor was thinking "north and south".
That's right. The ripped up the entire width of Town Square so that guests entering under the train station are today confronted with a plywood construction wall and have to squeeze around the ends of it to enter the park.
Even worse, they have to squeeze through to get out! The first night the wall was up, 21 thousand sighed at the end of the fireworks and tried to leave ... through two small openings. Word is the crowd backed up all the way to the Tiki Room, and the use of ECVs and strollers as battering rams injured almost as many as were involved with fistfights.
Next month, we get to see if they learned anything, or if they simply block off the *north* side of the square. Guess which I'm betting on?
My 8-year-old could have figured out north-south/east-west problem. Can I volunteer him for the next expensive Disney contract?
Look Duckies!