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The future Brightline station, Harry Reid Airport, the Strip, the Art District, and Downtown/Fremont St are practically in a straight line, yet the transit opti
by yeutterg 3y ago
The future Brightline station, Harry Reid Airport, the Strip, the Art District, and Downtown/Fremont St are practically in a straight line, yet the transit options in the Las Vegas area are fragmented and limited in frequency today. It's baffling to someone who lives and has lived in places with relatively good transit (San Francisco, Philadelphia, Munich, and Berlin) as better transit would be so easy to implement with existing, "boring" transit solutions.
While the idea of cars in tunnels is questionable at scale, perhaps the Boring Company tunnels could be retrofitted with automated people movers (like you see at airports) or some form of small light rail in the future.
I am for the project if it exposes the insanity of running cars in tunnels with higher demand, and then people vote to replace it with rail in the tunnels. But wouldn't it make more sense to do one of the following?
- Run more frequent Deuce buses up and down the strip and send them to the airport, potentially in a dedicated lane (BRT style)
- Extend the monorail to the airport, or build a cheaper rail system between the airport and the MGM monorail station with a cross-platform transfer or similar
- Then build a second rail line running from the Brightline station to the airport, then running up the west side of the strip from the Mandalay Bay to the Arts District and downtown