Duh. Just too easy. Downtown to Sahara. Sahara to Airport. It is so f**^
simple. The Station at Sahara should be the biggest in the world as part of
a upgrade of the Sahara Hotel. In the meantime an EXPRESS Line from Sahara
Station across to Stratosphere and up Las Vegas Blvd to downtown to the DTC.
An EXPRESS Bus from Sahara Station down Paradise to Airport. An EXPRESS
from Airport up Swenson to Sahara Station. $5 each way or combine the
Express and Monorail for $12. THIS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED NOW!
I have discussed this with two RTC planners and they couldn't agree more.
The problem is the cabs and transportation companies. Sooner or later they
need to also build a massive car parking structure at Sahara Parking lot and
look towards the future of cutting down traffic on the strip between Sahara
and Tropicana.
But this would be efficient government and we just cannot allow that to
happen.
--
Big Mikey/The Masarsky Group
"Walt" <none.RemoveThis@none.void> wrote in message
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> In article <47a66933$0$22613$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, Consultant
> <consultant.RemoveThis@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> "Walt" <none.RemoveThis@none.void> wrote in message
>> news:030220081229410725%none@none.void...
>> > LVRJ columnist says tear it down...
>> >
>> > http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/15155121.html
>> >
>> > --- Walt
>>
>> In my opinion the monorail will never be successful. My wife and I,
>> along
>> with another couple visited Vegas last September and stayed at the
>> Mandalay
>> Bay, which meant that we had to take public transportation almost every
>> where we went during the week. At first we took the CAT down the strip
>> which was reasonably priced and ran a regular schedule. However it was
>> slow, stopping at every stop and dealing with the traffic on the strip.
>>
>> After the CAT we took the monorail, which proved to be the wrong
>> decision.
>> We paid $5 each for a one way trip, walked a long way from the Bay to the
>> monorail station and a long way from the station that we exited to the
>> Mirage. The walk was way too long and the price way to high.
>>
>> Upon our return from the Mirage back to the Bay, we took a cab and the
>> fare
>> was $20 for the four of us total plus a tip and the cab took us from the
>> front door of the Mirage to the front door of the Bay so we had no
>> walking
>> between hotels. Needless to say we took a cab everywhere for the rest of
>> the week.
>>
>> Tell me how can the monorail compete with the cabs? It would be more
>> folly
>> to extend the monorail to the airport because who wants to carry their
>> luggage from a monorail station, through a casino, crossing a street and
>> walk a distance from the street to the hotel entrance. Not me, I'll take
>> a
>> cab.
>
> We discussed this back when the monorail opened and we pretty much
> reached the same conclusion. For certain people in certain situations
> (like needing to get to the Hilton or the Convention Center, or going
> from the Sahara to the South Strip), the monorail is a viable option.
> But there aren't enough such people to make the monorail a financial
> success.
>
> --- Walt >> Stay informed about: More Monorail Bashing 
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