A few bikes with back-end solar panels are on the street now. but only as tryouts. During the first week of January, a bike-share program targeting Zappos employees who work downtown will be formally unveiled.
18 December 2012
By Joe Schoenmann
Representatives of the Yellow-Checker-Star taxi group and the Industrial Technical Professional Employees union said they have extended contract negotiations through the end of January, averting a threatened strike that could have started at midnight Saturday.
14 December 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
Up until Thursday, CLS Transportation owner Charles Horky's life appeared to be the epitome of an American success story. He began his company with one limousine in Los Angeles and grew it into a multimillion-dollar business.
13 December 2012
By Brian Nordli
F Street, a short street connecting the historic west side of Las Vegas with downtown that closed in 2009 when the Spaghetti Bowl freeway interchange was upgraded, will reopen in late 2014 under a timeline reviewed today by the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.
13 December 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada received a series of reports on future projects for roads, highways and transit at today’s meeting.
13 December 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
American Airlines is changing the way it charges you to fly. American will charge up to $88 more per round trip for passengers who want a basic ticket that includes checking baggage or changing the reservation later on. Currently the airline levies separate fees for those and other extras for everyone except premium passengers.
12 December 2012
By David Koenig, Associated Press
The Nevada Taxicab Authority on Tuesday approved a new measure to head off the detrimental effects of simultaneous driver strikes against Clark County’s two largest cab company groups and authorized additional cabs for three big-turnout events on the Las Vegas calendar. The authority board voted unanimously to allow cab companies to operate up to 30 additional vehicles.
11 December 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
The National Transportation Safety Board was focusing on faulty truck brakes as one of the probable causes of a fatal collision with an Amtrak train that left six people dead in northern Nevada after time-lapse photography presented to the panel Tuesday showed the guard crossing gate fully extended well before the fiery crash.
11 December 2012
By Scott Sonner, Associated Press
Representatives of Western Cab Co. told regulators today they have withdrawn their application for approval to be acquired by the Yellow-Checker-Star family of companies.
11 December 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
Delta Air Lines Inc. is close to buying a stake in Virgin Atlantic for between $300 million to $500 million, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press on Monday.
10 December 2012
Joshua Freed, Associated Press
Traffic deaths in Clark County are up this year and the state, as one solution, is going to push to toughen its seat belt law, officials said.
10 December 2012
By Cy Ryan
Nevada lawyers working for companies and individuals whose land is being “eminent domained” by the state Department of Transportation to make room for the expansion of Interstate 15 are beginning to quake in their Dolce & Gabanas.
9 December 2012
By Joe Schoenmann
Drivers for the Yellow-Checker-Star taxi companies have authorized union leaders to call a strike as early as Dec. 16 over their ongoing contract dispute. A representative of the Industrial Technical Professional Employees Union said the vote to authorize a strike was “overwhelming."
7 December 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
Several southbound lanes on Interstate 15 will be closed overnight Saturday while graffiti is removed from an overhead sign near Spring Mountain Road.
6 December 2012
By Brian Nordli
Most people in the tourism industry love it when the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo comes to town because they make extra money. George Allen likes it for a different reason. The road supervisor for Yellow-Checker-Star Cab sees it as an opportunity to revisit his roots and meet up with salt-of-the-earth people.
6 December 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
