Las Vegas Monorail looking to expand to McCarran
If you don’t plan on going off the Las Vegas Strip, you may not need to grab a shuttle or a taxi to get to your hotel from the airport.
The Las Vegas Monorail Company and Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority(LVCVA) board of directors want to expand the monorail to McCarran International Airport.
Vegas Buzz reports that the monorail executives told LVCVA that it needs to go to the airport to generate revenue and ridership, otherwise it can’t survive.
Currently the monorail serves the Sahara, Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas Convention Center, Harrah’s/Imperial Palace, Flamingo/Caesars Palace, Bally’s/Paris, and the MGM Grand.
Monorail President and Chief Executive Curtis Myles won’t say how much the expansion project will cost, but he has assured the Clark County Commission that it won’t cost the taxpayers anything.
If everything goes according to schedule, the first train will start its first run to McCarran in 2012. The train “will go from MGM Grand, east on Tropicana, then turn south on Swenson into the airport,” according to Myles. At the airport, it will stop at terminal one and go to an airport expansion in terminal three.
Here’s the text of the proposal (PDF).
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The Las Vegas monorail is the worst conceived so called public service project I have ever seen. Everything is so spaced out you almost need to take bus to get anyplace except the hotels hosting a monorail station. Even the convention center station is a substantial walk from the convention center. As a result conventions still maintain bus service from most of the hotels to the convention center. Imagine experiencing this with luggage. Saving a few bucks will make sense for relatively few visitors.
On September 10th, 2008 at 3:28 pm John Zumrick said The Las Vegas monorail is the worst conceived so called public service project. Imagine experiencing this with luggage.
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Exactly! You should of said, experiencing this with luggage IN 110 DEGREE WEATHER. Hotels better have baggage handlers near STOPS.