Yamaguchi Monorail not working

[MaddOryxite]

I've been playing through career mode and I cannot figure out the Yamaguchi monorail! I completed the track and managed to open it, BUT the thing was hemorrhaging money. I went into the stats and see that there have been zero visitors in a year despite people lining up at the stations. I figure maybe it's a vendor problem so I assign some people to a monorail work zone and go to add some cars to try to make up for lost time. Well I could add the cars but as soon as I reopened it two of the stations were listed as "broken down". I sent in mechanics. I tried going back to one car. Nothing seems to be working.

Can someone please explain what I'm missing? I've tried googling but I'm not finding answers about broken down stations and I need this thing to make money

[Jaggid Edje]

I found that one tricky as well, I had to tweak the heck out of the settings for each station for the queue times. If the wait times are shorter than the time it takes offloading passengers to exit the station, then new ones won't get on the station.

Start by raising the minimum wait times, I can't recall if I also had to raise the maximums. Anywho, once I got those wait times sorted out at each station it started working.
Still hemmorhaged money though... I have yet to build a transport ride that doesn't lose money.

[MaddOryxite]

Finally got the thing working. It turns out my problem had to do with staffing the thing, but adjusting the wait times did help with the profit a bit. Thanks!

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by MaddOryxite:

Finally got the thing working. It turns out my problem had to do with staffing the thing, but adjusting the wait times did help with the profit a bit. Thanks!

Wait, so they actually take real staff? I tried figuring that out when I did my first one and couldn't find a person on my list of staff who was working at the stations even though you actually "see" a person standing at the start of the line.

[MaddOryxite]

Yes it seems so! I made a work zone that was literally just all of the stations and only the stations and assigned a bunch of vendors to it. It started to work shortly after that. I suspect if you don't have a vendor to sell tickets then the cars won't move.