Anyway, they said 3,500 people are killed a year doing one of the above.
Posted on 07/20/2007 4:15:47 AM PDT by rellimpank
THE BELEAGUERED LAS VEGAS MONORAIL IS PERILOUSLY CLOSE to earning my respect. It doesn't seem to matter what calamity befalls the troubled train, its management team just keeps chugging along.
Pieces and parts fall off and land on the sidewalk? No problem. Brakes fail and doors don't close? What's the big deal? Ridership plunges to ridiculous new lows? Happy days are just around the corner. Maybe they have a requirement that anyone who gets hired by the monorail must pass a personality test in which the glass is always
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Anyway, they said 3,500 people are killed a year doing one of the above.
Where’s Willie Green when you need him?
Trains are great if the city can be built around them, but otherwise its a money drain. The DART system here in Dallas has good ridership and gets 22c revenue for every $1 spent. Even if the ridership raises to fuller capacity they may get revenue of 40-50c to every $1 spent.
Wasn’t most of the European cities rebuilt after WWII around mass transit funded by the Marshall Plan and have since upgraded.
I like the Las Vegas monorail. It’s a great way to relax and enjoy unexcelled views of the Strip both day and night. The staff are great too.
they do it all over india... on busses too.
You’d think their mommas would teach them better.
I think so.
"Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail!"
Perhaps if the good people of Las Vegas built the Monorail so that it went through the lobbies of the larger hotels on the strip (ala Disney World's Contemporary Hotel,) it would get more ridership.
It misses out on most of it’s potential utility by not running to the airport.
I heard a story about the highrise developments in downtown Dallas; that young people and empty nesters - who work for TI and other suburban companies - live downtown and use Dart to get to work, instead of living in the burbs and going downtown to work. This, Dart trains, is part of the reason we have 19 cranes building new housing and that, taxes on construction and homes (starting @ $400,000), helps to offset that per person cost you mention.
If they had built the Monorail in the median strip of Las Vegas Boulevard, it might have worked. Instead, the Monorail is so far from the Strip that nobody wants to make such a long hike.
Well that about the smartest thing they've done. I never understood why they seemed to purposely avoid the most important stop they could have put on the route.
So why is the route carefully gerrymandered so you can't see it from the Strip? There are crowds of people on the sidewalk for miles who might be tempted to ride a monorail that ran down the center of the street. But no - they can't see the monorail unless they already know were it runs. Small wonder there are few people riding it.
My guess is that it's your tax dollars at work, protecting the owners of taxis and airport shuttles.
The fact that the train didn't begin at the airport, is proof positive that it has been a scam from the word go. Intrinsic corruption disqualifies it from being a fair test of point-to-point mass transit.
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