One of the comments suggest they’re leaving it closed because cutting that portion cuts 60-70 seconds off the ride, thus increasing its hourly capacitor by enough that Uni wants to keep the outdoor part closed. There is no way that takes 60-70 seconds. My guess is 20 seconds max.
From station to the moment the gates are closed and clears the entire block, it takes about ~70 secs.
Sounds like they are cutting down on ride time since they're running fewer vehicles it seems.
Poor show.