Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover

The Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover is an attraction located in Tomorrowland.

History

Original Concept

Like many early Walt Disney World attractions, the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover was based on a Disneyland attraction. The ride takes guests on a leisurely tour around Tomorrowland. The trains that guests sit in follow a guided track, and made up of five cars, which each hold four passengers. The attraction uses "linear induction motors" to propel the trains along a track. Since the motors are powered magnetically, and use no fuel, the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover is 100% pollution free. When Walt Disney and his Imagineers originally created the concept for the PeopleMover, they saw it as the transportation of the future. The Disneyland Peoplemover used Goodyear tires, with their own motors to propel the trains along the tracks. Walt thought that one day, PeopleMover's would be the easiest and cleanest way of urban transportation. If fact, traveling by PeopleMover was going to be one of the main modes of transportation in his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.

Although the technology never became as widespread as Walt might have hoped, in 1967 the WedWay PeopleMover opened in Disneyland. The attraction consisted of 62 trains which took guests on an elevated tour of Tomorrowland. Since the trains never stopped, guests stepped on and used a moving platform to align themselves with, and board the trains. Although the track was not covered, each of the individual cars were. Each of cars also head their own speakers, from which they could hear the rides narration. The attraction was often billed as the "future of transportation, here today!".

Creation in Walt Disney World

Although the attraction was not an opening day one, early on, their were plans for a PeopleMover attraction in Disney World. When the park opened in 1971 Tomorrowland was not yet complete. To help complete the land the a version of the PeopleMover was constructed along with Space Mountain. The Disney World version of the attraction