Disney announced plans to close Splash Mountain – at Disneyland and Walt Disney World – in 2020 after a petition to change the beloved water ride's theme went viral.
At the beginning of January 2023, we were hopeful of a return at EPCOT due to new signage being installed which includes reference to parking trams. Now, we have confirmation that they have returned to both EPCOT and Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Parking Lot Trams at EPCOTParking trams have been absent from EPCOT and Disney's Hollywood Studios since March 2020, when tram services were suspended at all four Walt Disney World Parks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There isn't a tram that goes from EPCOT to Magic Kingdom. There is only a monorail service which goes to the Transportation & Ticket Center. The TTC is where the Magic Kingdom parking lot is.
An extensive tram network covered large parts of London for several decades during the first half of the twentieth century. By the 1950s, however, trams were seen as old fashioned and were gradually phased out to create more room for buses and cars.
Spain PavilionThere also would have been an additional attraction as well as shopping and dining experiences. The market place would have featured both the new and old of Spain. The pavilion was never built because Disney was not able to find a sponsor.
The advent of personal motor vehicles and the improvements in motorized buses caused the rapid disappearance of the tram from most western and Asian countries by the end of the 1950s (for example the first major UK city to completely abandon its trams was Manchester by January 1949).