Monorail riders 18,963 per day during summer

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 20 Sept 06 | Omar Sofradzija

[rellimpank]

The Las Vegas Monorail is wrapping up the summer months with ridership in a deep freeze, failing to top 20,000 daily riders on a regular basis in recent months.

The rapid transit line averaged just 18,963 daily riders in June, July and August of this year.

That was a drop of 38 percent from the same months in 2005, when 30,735 people rode the system every day, according to monorail statistics.

And ridership in the past three months was 12 percent less than in March, April and May of this year, when the monorail averaged 21,581 daily riders.

[rellimpank]

--for the mass transit fans--

[Izzy Dunne]

I guess the thrill is gone. (Apologies to B.B. King).

[Dane]

Don't know much about the LV monoraili, but isn't the avg. fare something like $5.

Hell I would walk or get a taxi.

[Constitution Day]

What's it called?

[BaBaStooey]

In other news, Main Street is still all cracked and broken.

[thackney]

Single ride ticket is $5, ten ride ticket is $35, 3 day pass is $40.

http://www.lvmonorail.com/

[Proud_USA_Republican]

"The moronic monorail that has no line to the airport and is overpriced, thus has fewer and fewer passengers".

[peyton randolph]

The LV monorail is worth every penny. I'd pay twice as much to ride it. The alternative is 100+ degree weather walking or being crammed on a bus...and a bus ride isn't cheap...particularly for what is offered.

[Toby06]

Except Disney.

[wideawake]

Is there a chance the track could bend?

[Protagoras]

Everywhere they try them monorails fail.

It it specifically because they are monorails? Or just government mass transit in general?

[BaBaStooey]

What about us brain-dead slobs?

[Constitution Day]

Not on your life, my Hindu friend.

[avg_freeper]

The bus lines in Las Vegas are much cheaper and go more places than the Monorail.

[poinq]

It doesn't go anywhere and it costs a lot. Whats the point. Its not the monorails fault if it went down the strip to downtown the airport and the convention center that would be one thing. but it goes to a few hotels takes longer than a cab and costs as much.

[thackney]

It looks like they stopped it a block short of the airport.

http://www.lvmonorail.com/ride/map/images/Route_Map.pdf

[Pappy Smear]

May the force be with you!

[JayNorth]

Or just government mass transit in general?

It isn't a gobmint operation. And (in theory) they are extending it to McCarran airport at one end and to Fremont Street on the other. If they do, I predict it will be a huge hit, particularly during SEMA, CES, etc. when most attendees don't rent a car and there aren't enough cabs.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Riding the monorail is lots of fun. You get excellent views of the stip by day and night without the stop and go hassles of ground transportation. It's a novelty but that's what Vegas is all about.

Stay away from the buffets though . . . I got a hell of a case of E. Coli on my last trip. (Third world sanitary precautions are encouraged.)