Transportation

State sends no representative to talk on high-speed trains

Governors and transportation officials from across the country converged on the White House this week to discuss the future of high-speed rail with Vice President Joe Biden and the secretary of the Transportation Department.

5 June 2009
By Lisa Mascaro

Construction set to begin on new U.S. 95 interchange

U.S. 95 is shown at Horse Drive, which is the site of a future interchange and overpass. Construction will take about 18 months to complete.

Construction on the Horse Drive interchange at U.S. 95 is scheduled to start June 8 and will take 18 months to complete. The $44 million project in the northwest part of Las Vegas includes construction of an overpass and interchange, frontage roads, ramps, a bridge and extensive utility work, flood control improvements, traffic signals and lighting. Oso Blanca Road will be closed to traffic from Tee Pee Lane to Kyle Canyon Road for about 15 months.

3 June 2009
By Jeff Pope

For now, tolls may be best hope for bypass

Construction continues this month on the Hoover Dam bypass bridge, seen here from the Arizona side of Black Canyon. It's expected to open late next year.

For years, legislators and transportation officials have debated building a 13-mile, $500 million highway that would prevent congestion in town once a new, truck-friendly bridge across the Colorado River opens.

29 May 2009
By Brian Eckhouse

Former governors press for maglev

When two of the most popular former Nevada governors get together to support an idea they think is important, it is my responsibility to step aside and give this space to them so readers may benefit from their wisdom.

24 May 2009
By Brian Greenspun

Contracts awarded for car- and bike-to-bus facilities

The bus terminal planned for downtown Las Vegas will include facilities to encourage commuting by bicycle and bus.

Two long-discussed projects -- a downtown Las Vegas bus station designed especially for bike riders, and park-and-ride terminals in the northwest -- are closer to reality.

23 May 2009
By Brian Eckhouse

Why I-15 won’t go to two levels behind the Strip

For more than 20 years transportation analysts have suggested double-deck lanes would ease traffic congestion where Interstate 15 slices through Las Vegas’ resort corridor.

19 May 2009
By Brian Eckhouse

NDOT's cost warning bypassed

If many in Boulder City have their way, traffic will be diverted from U.S. 93, above, around town. But a study has questioned the value of the project's first phase.

A Nevada Department of Transportation analysis of the proposed Boulder City Bypass concluded that the cost of building the first phase of the project would outweigh its potential benefits. Despite reaching that conclusion in late 2007, the agency has continued to spend millions on studying and buying land for the project. The Transportation Department’s analysis looked at the project’s first phase and concluded it would cost $140 million to build and provide only $49 million in benefits. Despite reaching that conclusion in late 2007, the agency has continued to spend millions on studying and buying land for the project.

19 May 2009
By David McGrath Schwartz,
Mike Trask

I-15 not getting any wider, so other solutions studied

Carl Hagelman, right, Station Casinos' senior director of design, and Layne Brandhagen, a consultant to Station Casinos, look at maps of Interstate 15 on Wednesday at Clark High School during a public hearing on the I-15 Resort Corridor Study.

Transportation officials just spent 19 months studying how to prepare for a future surge in traffic on Las Vegas Valley’s already congested stretch of Interstate 15.

19 May 2009
By Brian Eckhouse

Vegas officials courted British Airways for a decade

A Boeing 757-236 airplane of British Airways lifts off from the Duesseldorf International airport.

British Airways, the London-based carrier that will inaugurate nonstop air service between Heathrow International Airport and Las Vegas on Oct. 25, has been on the radar of officials at McCarran International Airport and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for nearly a decade. But it wasn’t until a tour of Las Vegas and the airport a week ago that finally sealed the deal for the airline that annually flies 36 million passengers with routes connecting six continents.

18 May 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

British Airways to start daily service to Las Vegas

A British Airways jet takes off from Heathrow Airport in London July 16, 2006.

British Airways, an airline that annually flies 36 million passengers and has flights connecting six continents, will begin daily service between London’s Heathrow International Airport and Las Vegas this fall.

17 May 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Art will give new mode of transit some eye-appeal

Eric Pawloski's work is among art to be featured at rapid transit stops when the Gold Line opens.

The Regional Transportation Commission says it’s less than a year from launching its Gold Line, an aerodynamic rapid transit service connecting downtown Las Vegas and the Strip.

15 May 2009
By Kristen Peterson

Transportation officials rule out options to ease I-15 traffic

Interstate 15 along the Strip won’t be a "double-decker" freeway in five years – or maybe ever. A consultant hired by NDOT to consider ways to ease traffic along the I-15 "resort corridor" said at a public meeting Wednesday that such a structure would cut into McCarran’s air space.

13 May 2009
By Brian Eckhouse

Driving to the Strip? Leave extra time for road work

For about 2 1/2 weeks starting late Sunday, installation of new underground power lines to McCarran International Airport may cause big traffic delays along a 1.6-mile stretch of Tropicana Avenue, from near Paradise Road to just east of Interstate 15.

9 May 2009
By Brian Eckhouse

Assembly renews push for more power

The part-time Legislature wants the power to call itself into special session. Now only the governor can convene a special session, and he sets its agenda.

6 May 2009
By Cy Ryan

Bypass proponents charting a new course

Boulder City residents have long sought construction of a bypass highway that would allow motorists traveling between Las Vegas and Hoover Dam to drive around their town as opposed to driving through it, as they are now forced.

4 May 2009
By Mike Trask
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