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.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Austin TX City Council just approved $15 million dollars to be spent on a study on adding two light rail lines. The one we have here now loses about $12 million a year. I would do the study for $1.5 million and tell them the lines will cost more than the voters will approve. They have voted them down twice already.
Taxis are getting killed everywhere by Uber and Lyft.
$24 million? San Francisco, spending approx $2 billion on a new 1.7 mile subway line is thinking, “Pikers!”
I’d still have to wait for and then engage with a human rather than buy a ticket from a machine or phone app and wait between 4 and 8 minutes for a computer controlled ride.
Is there ever a public transportation monorail that isn’t a boondoggle?
Yep its just a stupit route on Paradise and not on Strip
I live in Las Vegas Uber and Lyft aren’t that cheap out here either
And they lose money on every ride, even though most of their drivers are not coming close to paying for the true operating costs of their vehicles.
I have been to Vegas once - fifteen years ago in 2004, shortly after the monorail opened. They were talking about extending it way back then.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.