A Few Questions About Rides.

So I was at the park yesterday and there are just some things I don't understand about the park.

1. How come when Gatekeeper doesn't run for an extended period of time (say somebody throws up) the ride ops have to push a button outside of the station?

2. Why do some stations allow as many people as they can hold in them while others only enough for one wait (excluding Wicked Twister but I noticed this on Magnum and Gatekeeper yesterday)?

3. Outside of the fact that it is an Intamin, why does Maverick have so much downtime?

Remembered another one.

4. What makes Meanstreaks front row so much smoother than the last one?

I had some more but I forget what they are at the second. I will add then later when I remember but thanks for the help with these.

#2 because it helps with capacity. When people crowd the station (like Magnum) they end up having rows that can't be seen/gotten to and sometimes end up sending empty rows because people are trying to ride with friends, etc. Plus it's just annoying to have a station full of people. Magnum especially has a poorly designed station up front for crowding.

#3-you answered your own question, LOL. Seriously, I would say it's because it has 2 launches. Any launched coaster is going to have down time, and having two obviously multiplies that.

4. is personal preference. Because I can't stand the slow down speed up aspect of a front row ride on most coasters, I definitely prefer the ride on Mean Streak closer to and in the back seat. A back car ride on most wood coasters means the train is slowing down on ascents and speeding up on descents by the time the back of the train gets to that spot on the track. Rides with lower air time hills generally cause the rougher ride in the back car from my experience. As Mean Streak has no airtime hills I don't find the back of the train to be a bad ride at all

1. Where at, on the brake run or lift hill. It's probably to clear the blocks that are probably set due to illness or to jog the lift after a lift stop (lift enable)

2. Answered

3. Answered yourself

4. This is subjective

Thanks for all the help and yes. On the last block beak, the one with that is the transfer track.

Yeah that's probably to reset the blocks, the ride probably sets up so it needs reset, same goes for Raptor/Mantis during block tests if I'm correct, would need a current crew member to confirm on gatekeeper, or another one of my friends that work on the B&M's in the park. I only had limited knowledge of the B&M's haha, only was at them for a very short timeframe haha.

I can answer #1 I work on B&M rides at carowinds B&M rides we have tend to have a lift time out on them such as intimidator and vortex the afterburn ride doesnt have this feature but it was built in 99 and intimidator is a 2010 ride. but if a train is not dispatched after about 5 to 10 minutes the lift will turn off and it needs to be restarted

Lift enable is at the base of the lift, he's saying they went out onto the brake run/transfer table.

Did you have to do the same thing on those as well and reset the system?