Transportation

Cleaner cars, whether we want ’em or not

What California wants, California gets. And the rest of us get it, too, even after Nevada has tried at every turn to defy lefty, California environmental initiatives.

11 February 2009
By Phoebe Sweet

US Airways to cut jobs at McCarran

US Airways, the second busiest air carrier at McCarran International Airport, will cut dozens of jobs at the Las Vegas airport later this year. Parker said 233 airport support positions would be cut nationwide at 10 airports with Las Vegas, Pittsburgh and Tucson, Ariz., being the hardest hit by the decision. US Airways officials wouldn’t say how many jobs would be cut at McCarran. As of today, the airline had 817 Las Vegas-based employees.

10 February 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Stimulus money to bring upgrades to Boulder Highway

Federal stimulus money will be used to bring upgrades to the Boulder Highway corridor, including improvements to traffic signal timing and funds for the Boulder Highway Ace project.

The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada intends to use federal stimulus money to fill potholes and improve traffic flow on Boulder Highway. Clark County should receive $30 to $40 million for road construction, which isn't enough for a major new project. So, the money will be used for resurfacing and reconstructing roadways.

10 February 2009
By Cy Ryan

Fewer visitors means fewer fares to go around

Cabdriver Tulay Koseoglu is en route last week to McCarran airport. She says with fewer tourists visiting Las Vegas, days when she makes $60 in a 12-hour shift are becoming more frequent.

On a recent weekday, Tulay Koseoglu sat in her taxi at the Riviera for more than an hour waiting for a tourist to exit the property. Like sparse crowds inside casinos and on Strip sidewalks, empty cab stands have become a symbol of the epic tourism downturn in Las Vegas.

8 February 2009
By Liz Benston

D is for delays on McCarran’s D concourse trams

McCarran International Airport passengers ride Tuesday on one of two new trams serving the C concourse. The D concourse trams are up next for replacement.

If you’re flying American, Delta or Continental airlines, you’re now advised to arrive at McCarran International Airport at least 30 minutes earlier than usual.

4 February 2009
By Brian Eckhouse

December decline leaves McCarran with 7.7 percent fewer passengers in 2008

Last year ended on a sour note — another double-digit percentage decline — for passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport. In December 3.2 million passengers arrived and departed from the airport, a 14.1 percent decline from December 2007, bringing the annual total of passengers to 44.1 million, 7.7 percent fewer than in 2007.

30 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

I-15 to be closed Wednesday at Calif. state line

Interstate 15 will be closed Wednesday at the California state line for blasting and rock removal at Mountain Pass.

27 January 2009
By Cara McCoy

Downtown bar owner objects to hard-line meter-readers

Over the past several years, Las Vegas City Hall has bent over backward to assist businesses looking to set up shop in downtown’s Fremont East District. But the line apparently is drawn when it comes to enforcement of parking regulations.

20 January 2009
By Sam Skolnik

Yapta saves fliers cash with alerts on ticket price reductions

If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to save money in your travel expenses, you may want to look at a Web site that has been operating for more than a year and a half and has a cool new feature that is helpful to some frequent fliers. It’s Yapta.com, with “yapta” an acronym for “your amazing personal travel assistant.”

16 January 2009
By Richard N. Velotta

Paving the way for public art

Jeffrey Rhoads, considered the godfather of public art on bridges and other infrastructure in Southern Nevada, kneels beside cutouts used to create Native American-style petroglyphs in concrete. Rhoads' work inspired the state Transportation Department to welcome such decorations on road projects.

Jeffrey Rhoads has, in a small way, bettered the lives of nearly every driver in Clark County. Hundreds of thousands of drivers see his work or the work he has inspired.

13 January 2009
By Brendan Buhler

Improving our roads

Reducing traffic congestion in the Las Vegas Valley should be a top priority. Not only would easing congestion improve commuting times, it would reduce pollution.

28 December 2008

Governors agree to back fast train

Plans for maglev train like the one being tested in Japan in 2003 to give travelers between Las Vegas and Southern California another alternative to Interstate 15 may get a boost from a the economic stimulus plan.

For over 20 years, boosters have dreamed of and lobbied for a train that could travel from Southern California to Las Vegas at 300 mph. The proposed magnetic levitation train line linking Las Vegas and Anaheim, Calif. — attacked by critics as a multi-billion dollar pipe dream — has gained new life. Gov. Jim Gibbons is planning to travel to Sacramento to talk with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger about it.

22 December 2008
By David McGrath Schwartz

Street safety proposal riles builders group

On Wednesday, the City Council introduced an ordinance that would mandate all future residential streets in Las Vegas that don’t intersect with another road be circular cul-de-sacs.

18 December 2008
By Sam Skolnik

RTC to test wireless traffic system in Green Valley

Jim Neubert, a senior traffic technician at the RTC Traffic Operations Center, watches for traffic complications through cameras placed along the Las Vegas Beltway. Henderson is preparing to test a wireless traffic signal management system that will tie into the RTC's FAST program, which manages traffic around the valley.

A new wireless traffic signal management system that will soon be tested in Henderson could change the way traffic flow is managed in the Las Vegas Valley — and save local governments millions in the process.

18 December 2008
By Jeremy Twitchell

Turbulence on the state plane

The state Department of Transportation continues to look into complaints by a former state pilot of safety lapses involving Nevada's Cessna Citation, shown in 2006.

Testimony by a former state pilot last week painted a disturbing portrait of the operation of the state’s jet, which flies elected officials and state workers on official business.

19 November 2008
By David McGrath Schwartz
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