Residents of the northern part of the valley will soon have better access to the Las Vegas Beltway but will have to endure six months of detours first.
Another legislative push to allow red-light cameras in North Las Vegas has crashed and burned. North Las Vegas Police had tried in two consecutive sessions of the Legislature to repeal a ban on the traffic cameras to catch drivers who blow through red lights.
DesertXpress, a proposed $6 billion high-speed rail line that would link Las Vegas with Victorville, Calif., cleared another major hurdle Friday with the Federal Railroad Administration’s release of its final environmental report on the route.
Think of it as the 21st century way of flashing headlights to warn oncoming drivers about police ahead. That’s how Joe Scott, chief executive officer of PhantomALERT, describes the smart phone and GPS software applications his company produces that have come under fire from lawmakers.
You’ve got to spend money to make money. That was the conclusion of a national transportation research group that released a report Wednesday outlining the top 40 transportation projects that would support economic growth in Nevada. Call it a wish list for the Nevada Department of Transportation and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, which unveiled the study’s findings.
More closures and delays are scheduled over the next week for ramps to and from Interstate 15 in the southern valley. The ramp from Blue Diamond Road to northbound I-15 will be closed from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday for bridge work.
Passenger traffic increased at McCarran International Airport for the second straight month in February, the first time in more than a year the airport has seen back-to-back increases.
The closure of the Sahara hotel-casino is likely to harm the bankrupt Las Vegas Monorail, which has a station at the Sahara that is the transportation system’s northern terminus and a connecting point to the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada’s bus transit system.
A major change could be coming to the valley’s public bus system but one that will likely not be noticed by most residents. The Regional Transportation Commission is negotiating a contract with a new company to run the bus system that carried 54.8 million people last year.
