The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid
The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid
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What jumps out almost immediately is that it does not appear to be a loop. Were it a loop, you could have more than one car going around. Should it not at the bare minimum satisfy its own naming criteria?
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wait don't tell me that joke is still ongoing...
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I read about Vegas Loop a few years ago when it was, let's call it "completed", but... it's somehow even worse than I remember. And the fact that Tennessee is building a new one is just mind-melting.
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Oh, hell yeah. Next.
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Less of a boondoggle, more of a hornswoggle.
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It’s never been about providing a useful service. It was always meant as a distraction to kill high speed rail initiatives.
He goes into it in the video, but the Las vegas monorail runs to many of the same locations, is cash positive, and is the 13th most used mass transit system in the US.
The issue in Vegas is that mass transit doesn't fit a "luxury" experience that every bit of vegas is trying to sell you to fleece your pockets. The loop, especially the "new" stops that are literally benches outside of hotels with no tunnels, don't either, but the "private chauffeur" pitch of the Tesla tunnels at least fit the grift.
i expect the monorail to be attacked by attrition intended policies to help foster traffic towards the loop