Posted on 04/02/2019 1:48:12 PM PDT by rktman
An expansion of the taxpayer-financed boondoggle that is the Las Vegas Monorail won’t be ready in time for the 2020 NFL season when the Raiders are expected to begin play in the Las Vegas Stadium.
City planners want to extend the monorail from its current southernmost stop at MGM Grand about one and a quarter miles down to Mandalay Bay, allowing patrons easy walking distance to the new stadium at the corner or Russell Road and Interstate 15. The project is expected to cost about $24 million.
Las Vegas Monorail Co. has yet to break ground on the project as it waits for the county to review its permit applications. Since the extension is expected to take 18 months to complete it’s very unlikely it will be ready by the start of the NFL season in September 2020.
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>>Boondoggle much? Initially $24 million, but does that include kick backs and union bribes?
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It will come in at a little under a cool 1/2 Billion.
You heard it here first.
It always amazed me (and I’ve seen such stupidity elsewhere) that they build this big fancy people mover and don’t connect it to the airport. How much did city planners get paid off by the taxi lobby to not add the most single useful stop?
And this expansion STILL won’t add it to the airport!
Is that now gov sleazy sissypants with the hat on?
MGM unloaded that money-losing white Rhino a decade ago onto the city.
“It always amazed me (and I’ve seen such stupidity elsewhere) that they build this big fancy people mover and don’t connect it to the airport. How much did city planners get paid off by the taxi lobby to not add the most single useful stop?”
It was originally built with “Public/Private” money by MGM to connect it’s strip hotels. Then the city took it over...
What, and have the taxis revolt?
It seems to me that shuttle bus service to the stadium would make sense, especially since the times it has to run is pretty limited... just when there's an event at the stadium.
—I was working for the private tram that runs from Excalibur to Mandalay Bay at the time the original planned route came out in the paper—
—all eleven of us working there agreed that it would be a failure as it didn’t get anyone from where they were to where they wanted to be—
-we figured the whole idea was to eventually get Harry Reid to taxpayer-fund an extension to the airport—
one and a quarter miles .... expected to cost about $24 million.
lolol
Mobsters, teamsters, Unionists, payoffs to contractors, kickbacks to local officials, etc. etc.
These cost sure do add up, huh?
You’re forgetting hairy screed’s greasy palm.
I think you misunderstood, the $24 Million is just for the Payoffs and Kickbacks!
Can you imagine 20,000+ Raider Fan marauding through the casinos on the way back from a losing game? The cops will be busy.
A dirty little secret in Las Vegas is to take the free shuttle from the airport to the rental car center and call a taxi to pick you up there.
It actually isn’t big - the cars are too small to hold many people, let alone people with luggage going to the airport. It was just a typically horrible execution of what might originally have been a good idea.
The rental car center is south of the airport, you would be taking the long road to the Strip.
Lol! Nevada goes blue. Green boondoggles begin. Rotfl.
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