Stemming from a July 2009 fatal accident of Monorail driver Austin Wuennenberg, Disney has made plans to create a new Monorail position and increase pay for the trains' workers.
In the old way of doing things, the job of "monorail coordinator" had workers not only directing traffic, but also left them tasked with other duties such as employee schedules. With the creation of the new position, aptly named the "central monorail controller," workers occupying this position can concentrate specifically on directing the monorail traffic.
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