When I was in WDW I saw several of these buses at OKW with these lifts.
When I first arrived, I saw one of these buses parked beside the entrance as I was entering the OKW hospitality house. I asked the bus driver, who had a special uniform on, if that was a lift for
scooter and wheelchairs, and what it was like. The bus was one of those tall, Greyhound buses with only one entrance at the front. But on the side/rear was a section that looked like it would open up since the opening was about the width of a lift and extended all the way from the bottom to the top of the bus. I thought that He said he thought so, but he had never used it before.
Interestingly, the next day I was arriving to board the WDW bus at the same entrance at OKW to go to Epcot when I saw a line of WDW buses out to the intersection behind one of these Magical Express buses. There was the bus driver, several suit and tie WDW people trying to get the lift to rise. It really looked very fancy and heavy duty, and high tech. But no one could figure out how to get it rise while I was there.
They eventually let the other buses back up and use the taxi/car drop off entrance to load everyone. By this time there were nine buses lined up to drop/pickup guests from different parks, etc..
When I came back that night the driver drove past the OKW regular hospitality house entrance, and turned into the parking lot. They had set up a white tent and baracades and dropped me off there.
I saw that they had barricades around the place where the Magical Express bus was before. The signs said pardon our construction. I think that they most have dragged the Magical Express bus out and away from the OKW drop off point with the elevator lift still down and open causing damage to the pavement. It took them several days to repair the pavement.
That must have been embarassing for everyone.
But I'm sure all the kinks are worked out, and all the bus drivers have learned how to use the elevevator lift. I think that the Magical Express bus's elevator lift is so high tech, and fancy, and very heavy, that it should be much more sturdier than any lift that I have ever seen.
Anyone get a chance to use one yet?
Sincerely, Ray