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Expansion of Financially Troubled Las Vegas Monorail Delayed
townhall.com ^ | 4/2/2019 | J Kampis

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: monorail; vegassraiders
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Boondoggle much? Initially $24 million, but does that include kick backs and union bribes?
1 posted on 04/02/2019 1:48:12 PM PDT by rktman
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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.


2 posted on 04/02/2019 1:49:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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3 posted on 04/02/2019 1:49:44 PM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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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?


4 posted on 04/02/2019 1:52:27 PM PDT by posterchild
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5 posted on 04/02/2019 1:52:45 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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And this expansion STILL won’t add it to the airport!


6 posted on 04/02/2019 1:57:17 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Tench_Coxe

Is that now gov sleazy sissypants with the hat on?


7 posted on 04/02/2019 1:57:47 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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MGM unloaded that money-losing white Rhino a decade ago onto the city.


8 posted on 04/02/2019 1:57:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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“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...


9 posted on 04/02/2019 1:59:27 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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What, and have the taxis revolt?


10 posted on 04/02/2019 2:00:02 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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People don't like the monorail so much, since it runs behind the casinos and is hard to find and takes lots of walking to get to. They seem to prefer the shuttles, which run along Las Vegas Blvd and are right out front.

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.

11 posted on 04/02/2019 2:05:50 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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—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—


12 posted on 04/02/2019 2:09:03 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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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?


13 posted on 04/02/2019 2:10:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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You’re forgetting hairy screed’s greasy palm.


14 posted on 04/02/2019 2:19:45 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I think you misunderstood, the $24 Million is just for the Payoffs and Kickbacks!


15 posted on 04/02/2019 2:27:56 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Can you imagine 20,000+ Raider Fan marauding through the casinos on the way back from a losing game? The cops will be busy.


16 posted on 04/02/2019 2:32:05 PM PDT by RGF
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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.


17 posted on 04/02/2019 2:36:42 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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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.


18 posted on 04/02/2019 2:40:19 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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The rental car center is south of the airport, you would be taking the long road to the Strip.


19 posted on 04/02/2019 2:43:34 PM PDT by guitar Josh
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Lol! Nevada goes blue. Green boondoggles begin. Rotfl.


20 posted on 04/02/2019 2:44:43 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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