Road Warrior
Contact Mick Akers at makers@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers on Twitter.
Times are tough when you can’t afford a bus ride. We’re not talking about the passengers who board a coach every day. We’re talking the agency in charge of the Las Vegas Valley’s transportation system, the Regional Transportation Commission.
It has only been a couple months since the Nevada Department of Transportation stripped the desert along the Extraterrestrial Highway of its hidden treasures.
Something is missing from the state transportation department’s photograph of bumper-to-bumper traffic outside Boulder City, the backup for which commercial tractor-trailers are being blamed.
Despite initial plans to loop the monorail through downtown and connect it to the airport, it remains a four-mile shuttle between select Strip resorts. The DesertXpress will terminate in Victorville, Calif., but plans call for an eventual connection to Palmdale, Calif., where it would link into the rest of California’s proposed high-speed network.
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