Does anyone have information how the Monorail is doing since it has resumed service?
Just curious.
Does anyone have information how the Monorail is doing since it has resumed service?
Just curious.
I dont think it matters. Its days are numbered regardless. Elon Musk's tunnel is up and running at the convention center and unlike the monorail it has a future route map that people actually want to use.
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
I dont think it matters. Its days are numbered regardless. Elon Musk's tunnel is up and running at the convention center and unlike the monorail it has a future route map that people actually want to use.
PJ, I think the monorail is a mess. That being said, Musk's tunnel won't be be running the strip for a decade or two.......if it happens at all.
They should have built a subway running from the airport down the strip to Fremont
The trouble is that a true subway running underneath the Strip would have to be built under or around existing utility, sewage and drain tunnels. Not to mention that it would block off traffic for more than a year. Not gonna happen.
kevin is wrong again.
NYC has recently built the 2nd Ave subway, the #7 train extension to the Javits Ctr & and an extension from Penn Station to Grand Central Station, all underground. Traffic disruption was minimal & construction was under existing utility lines.
My trip in Sept was first visit in 5 years, I stayed at the Linq and was suprised to see the monorail access at Harrahs / Linq was now enclosed. It looks nice and it will be nice not to stand out in the cold in Jan for CES, but seems like a huge waste of money.
As for the monorail itself, smooth as ever, came every 8 minutes as it was weekdays and nothing going on at LVCC. I was suprised that there quite a few people on board every time I used it. My only complaint if the walk at MGM and at Bally's.
Well, one must refer to the national motto: "Money talks." Conventions in Vegas are big business and the flinging of hundreds of millions of dollars toward a transportation system that relatively few people will ever use makes perfect sense when you consider the amount of money that conventioneers bring to the city.
In contrast, Joe Schmo, flying to Vegas with a wallet full of hundred dollar bills that he doesn't want and intends to give to Caesars (et al.), is fading into relative irrelevance. Contrast the money being spent to make Joe's Vegas experience better ($0.00) with the money being spent to entice and coddle conventioneers.
