Unfortunately, many of our rides are old and take more maintenance as they get older. The trains take a lot of abuse and need some TLC when they get the age they are. I still think KI has some of the best maintenance in the business. And yes, to the guests it stinks when a ride isn't going or is down a train, but in KI's situations, it has been because maintenance found something and repaired it.
Knock on wood we haven't taken a page out of other parks and reduce train ops for light attendance.
Look at all the folks saying Beast would be down 2 trains the rest of the year and how many accused the park of going to one train on The Bat to start winter maintenance early.
Both of which were not the case.
And the easy answer for The Bat would have been to simply let it go with one train ops, but maintenance worked on it and got it back to two train ops.
Also, keep in mind, the park can do additional testing during the week when the park isn't open, and they routinely find things that taking a train offline now for a few weeks reduces the risks of a bigger issue later.
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