Posted Jan 18, 2010, 4:34 PM
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Location: Portland, OR
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Originally Posted by coyotetrickster
Actually, in real cities, like London, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Chicago, Boston, rail lines are used, and used frequently. Unfortunately, in car-infested, sun-belt cities like las vegas, the cost of car ownership is much lower and folks opt for cars. Rail will never work in Vegas since it's economic base is tourism and the 'industries, e.g. hotels/casinos' have vested interests in maximizing guest immobility (keep em in YOUR casino).
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I disagree. I think tourist would love to use rail or monorail in Las Vegas if it, as was noted in earlier posts, hit the airport and went on to downtown. Right now it is just to limited, kind of set to fail.
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