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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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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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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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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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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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Is there ever a public transportation monorail that isn’t a boondoggle?


25 posted on 04/02/2019 3:09:04 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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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.


30 posted on 04/02/2019 7:19:30 PM PDT by CraigEsq
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