Walt Disney World Monorail System On July 5, 2009, a driver was killed after the Pink and Purple monorails collided on the Epcot line at the Transportation and ticket Center. This was the only deadly incident on the Walt Disney World Monorail System in its history. Walt Disney World Monorail System The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a public transit monorail system in operation at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. The Walt Disney World Resort currently operates twelve Mark VI monorail trains on three lines of service. The monorail system opened in 1971 with two routes (Magic Kingdom:
Disney Vacation Club Beach, Florida. Disney would then open Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort just five months later on March 1, 1996 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas opened its first phase in 2007 at $17,000 for a membership. By September 17, 2008, Disney Vacation Development had two new time share properties being built, Bay Lake Tower and Treehouse Villas in Orlando at existing Disney park hotels and both were to open in 2009. Bay Tower was expect for its timeshares to open at $18,000. On October 3, 2007, Disney announced it would open its latest Disney Vacation Club