I think I will be able to make the people movers work for tunnels. I was playing with the loop from the track pieces and really wasn't happy with it. It looks the part but it doesn't function at all. So, I played around with the People Mover templates and made
this loop.
It is too tall right now but I understand how the people mover works now (trigger areas, locators and weather vanes) so I should be able to reproduce the effect in a tighter loop. I might even try to make the ramps where Sonic (stitch) jumps really high using this technique.
I am slow at this but I am happy with the progress so far. After I am done with the layout, I am going to try to add the "rings" as collectibles.
I have learned so much from this project. Maybe I will even try logic gates sometime...