Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford is suggesting an increase in the diesel fuel tax to help close the gap between the money needed for transportation projects and the money available.
Clark County hoped to begin overhauling a 2.5-mile stretch of the northern Las Vegas Beltway, from near Tenaya Way to just east of Decatur Boulevard, in early June.
Former Assembly speaker and current lobbyist Richard Perkins, a former Henderson police chief, is pushing a bill that would require the DMV to contract with a private company to verify motorists’ automobile insurance. Only one company would qualify. That company has hired Perkins as its lobbyist.
A high-speed rail alternative to the oft-discussed magnetic levitation train to Southern California would be privately funded, create up to 3,000 jobs during construction and prompt the displacement of some desert tortoises, representatives of the Federal Railroad Administration and an environmental consultant told a crowd of about 100 people Tuesday evening.
Assemblyman Joe Hardy hasn’t given up on legislation that might allow the Boulder City Bypass to move forward as a toll road, even though the two pieces of legislation that would have made tolling legal failed to pass the Assembly. The proposed Boulder City Bypass would redirect traffic south of Boulder City, but little money is available for the $300 million project. Building it as a toll road has been seen as a way to get it built before 2025, which is the soonest NDOT says it will be built with state money. Tolling is currently illegal in Nevada.
Many who live between Interstate 15 and Las Vegas Boulevard have viewed the stretch of pavement that leads to the tourist mecca on the Strip as a potentially deadly trap that separates them from jobs, shopping centers and schools. Some relief for those residents came today, as the county turned on a newly installed traffic signal at the boulevard's intersection with Wigwam Avenue. The stoplight should provide residents with a safer place to cross the busy thoroughfare.
For two decades Las Vegas has provided low-cost bus service throughout downtown geared toward seniors and low-income residents. City Ride has never made any money. In fact, in recent years it has cost taxpayers about $850,000 annually.
Out here in the West, where there are great distances between cities, a reliable transportation network is crucial. This holds true not only for cars and trucks, but also for trains.
Henderson is testing a new generation of traffic camera that has the potential to create cost savings in the city’s traffic-monitoring program. City crews installed the new Gridsmart Video System at the intersection of Lake Mead Parkway and Van Wagenen Street at the beginning of April. The system uses a single camera with a fisheye lens that can monitor all four directions of traffic.
CARSON CITY – Despite the opposition of the Democratic leadership, the Senate has approved a bill to require private companies to go through more hurdles before building any toll roads in Nevada.
Northbound and southbound motor vehicle traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard South between Harmon Avenue and Paris Drive will be reduced to one lane in each direction during construction of the Harmon pedestrian bridge that will extend over the Strip.
