And i’m betting that one would easily be able to flip the hypothesis and indeed prove that Compensation is the number 1 reason associates leave their firm.
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February 9, 2024 10:32 am
Vegas will do anything, and make any excuse, to prevent building usable public transportation.
That was and remains a joke and strictly a money laundering operation that was basically DOA. Poor planning and very little participation from the Hotels.
It all traces back to the cab companies’ strangle hold dated back in the 70’s.
Its a travesty, because this town, the Strip and the Airport could have been an example to the world on how to do it right, but we are too incompetent. Id you look at what Salt Lake City has done, you know its possible.
We have a prayer with the Vegas Loop but this concept is different and a little weird. Light rail should have been up and running 20 years ago.
I think this is an excellent point that many ‘transplants’ would not be aware of. The cab companies and their lobbyists were exceptionally powerful in the 70s/80s even the nineties and crushed any viable airport transport option.
light rail costs too much, is under-used everywhere it is implemented, and is inefficient. if you are committed to mass transit then ride the bus or advocate for more busses. that is the most cost effective and efficient means of mass transportation and can run on “clean” energy. also, I would love to know where people think light rail should run to and from? what serious traffic issues do we have other than those created by ndot?
10:53-Cabs having a strangle hold? Hardly. Vegas was built around the automobile. Folks pulled up to the casino in their car, their ride and their cab. The last thing visitors wanted is the hassle of mass transit–a train or a bus with their luggage. The convenience of personal transit continues today. Casinos have limos and drivers for their high rollers or repeat customers. Not passes to buses or light rail. If cabs had a strangle hold they would have not had allowed Uber/Lyft as much access. By the way, the cabs that are sitting at the airport waiting for a fare are paid for by the cab companies not anyone else. With a cab or limo, you get a clean late model car and not some down and out Uber driver. There is just not enough capacity for cabs, Ubers or shuttles to move all the visitors at any given time. Light rail and mass transit will never pay for itself without taxpayer subsidies. Even NYC with its massive subway system has traffic jams. There is nothing like your own car or ride.
If you are a cab company strangle hold denier, then you were not here.
In fact, I am also of the opinion that you are a true newby because the opposition and regulation of Ride sharing (perpetuated by the cab companies) was a huge battle and it was not all that long ago.
9:52-AM-Sorry I have been in Vegas most of my adult life and rep’d the Cab industry. The casinos wanted the cabs not the other way around. The town was built around casinos and not the cab industry. You are just so ignorant it is pathetic. Mass transit is never the answer except for the underserved poor and it is subsidized by the taxpayers. The monorail was a boondoggle and failed. Are you going to blame that on a bunch of families that own cab companies???
I guess that I am so ignorant that I need to misstate your position. . . .
I never said that this was built around the cab industry. Such a proposition is just silly. But, if you think that the cab industry (the mob) didn’t influence government policy vis a vis mass transit, you are either lying or biased beyond recognition because you “rep’d” the “cab industry”. (Pretty unpersuasive . . 🙄)
Of course, I guess your “adult life” could mean just about anything . . . .
Mass transit can absolutely be the answer, but in order for it to work, the city planners need to actually plan the city. They can’t just take fees from developers and rubberstamp whatever they want to build. Doing that is how we end up with sprawl. Given that Las Vegas’ history is one of rubberstamping and not planning, I’m not sure what steps could be taken to effectively implement mass transit.
Mass transit is a financial boondoggle and a waste of taxpayer money. How many times do we see empty buses in the bus lane blocking traffic or at bus stops. It might have made sense to put a tram or light rail on the strip but it never happened because the casinos were concerned about where the trams would stop. Instead we go the monorail on the back of the strip.
Its not a boondoggle and waste of money elsewhere. But certainly it is here. The CAT/RTC busses provide decent coverage, but in the desert people wont ride it.
The casinos didn’t directly oppose the monorail, the cab companies killed it. The County funneled 100’s of millions into donors pockets and was never designed to be successful. If it was, it would have been elevated down the center of the Strip and connected to all the casinos.
Light rail and a better bus system was always the answer and it was killed. Now its too cost prohibitive.
i don’t think there is a single study that supports the cost effectiveness and efficiency of light rail other than with made up secondary economic benefits around rail stations. bussing is the answer but the same people that advocate for light rail would never stoop to ride a bus. light rail is a limousine liberal (maybe change to light rail liberal) pipe dream.
I agree. I hear he did it all to protest abortion. Maybe his punishment can be to watch non-stop abortion footage in his cell until he promises to stop these stunts.
This is hardly a Vegas landmark. LOL. You are easily impressed.
But, I love that you are triggered. and I am not above positing that it was Sphere’s publicity stunt. Made the national news so hey, mission accomplished.
Definition of landmark: “an object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location.” At night it can be seen from many, if not most, areas of the valley. Can definitely be seen from the air. Every broadcast of an event taking place in Las Vegas shows the Sphere, and it also has received a lot of publicity in many, if not most, civilized areas of the world. The Sphere definitely is a Las Vegas landmark.
“[C]ompensation is the number 1 reasons associates stay at their firm.” You mean it’s not the snacks in the break room?
*beers in the break room that are supposed to be for client meetings.
And i’m betting that one would easily be able to flip the hypothesis and indeed prove that Compensation is the number 1 reason associates leave their firm.
Vegas will do anything, and make any excuse, to prevent building usable public transportation.
Like building a monorail that doesn’t even go to the airport? Granted that benefits mainly tourists, but same idea.
That was and remains a joke and strictly a money laundering operation that was basically DOA. Poor planning and very little participation from the Hotels.
It all traces back to the cab companies’ strangle hold dated back in the 70’s.
Its a travesty, because this town, the Strip and the Airport could have been an example to the world on how to do it right, but we are too incompetent. Id you look at what Salt Lake City has done, you know its possible.
We have a prayer with the Vegas Loop but this concept is different and a little weird. Light rail should have been up and running 20 years ago.
Ted Nugent reference!!
Thanks, now I have Derek St Holmes in the left half of my brain and Ted Nugent in the right.
I think this is an excellent point that many ‘transplants’ would not be aware of. The cab companies and their lobbyists were exceptionally powerful in the 70s/80s even the nineties and crushed any viable airport transport option.
light rail costs too much, is under-used everywhere it is implemented, and is inefficient. if you are committed to mass transit then ride the bus or advocate for more busses. that is the most cost effective and efficient means of mass transportation and can run on “clean” energy. also, I would love to know where people think light rail should run to and from? what serious traffic issues do we have other than those created by ndot?
10:53-Cabs having a strangle hold? Hardly. Vegas was built around the automobile. Folks pulled up to the casino in their car, their ride and their cab. The last thing visitors wanted is the hassle of mass transit–a train or a bus with their luggage. The convenience of personal transit continues today. Casinos have limos and drivers for their high rollers or repeat customers. Not passes to buses or light rail. If cabs had a strangle hold they would have not had allowed Uber/Lyft as much access. By the way, the cabs that are sitting at the airport waiting for a fare are paid for by the cab companies not anyone else. With a cab or limo, you get a clean late model car and not some down and out Uber driver. There is just not enough capacity for cabs, Ubers or shuttles to move all the visitors at any given time. Light rail and mass transit will never pay for itself without taxpayer subsidies. Even NYC with its massive subway system has traffic jams. There is nothing like your own car or ride.
If you are a cab company strangle hold denier, then you were not here.
In fact, I am also of the opinion that you are a true newby because the opposition and regulation of Ride sharing (perpetuated by the cab companies) was a huge battle and it was not all that long ago.
9:52-AM-Sorry I have been in Vegas most of my adult life and rep’d the Cab industry. The casinos wanted the cabs not the other way around. The town was built around casinos and not the cab industry. You are just so ignorant it is pathetic. Mass transit is never the answer except for the underserved poor and it is subsidized by the taxpayers. The monorail was a boondoggle and failed. Are you going to blame that on a bunch of families that own cab companies???
I guess that I am so ignorant that I need to misstate your position. . . .
I never said that this was built around the cab industry. Such a proposition is just silly. But, if you think that the cab industry (the mob) didn’t influence government policy vis a vis mass transit, you are either lying or biased beyond recognition because you “rep’d” the “cab industry”. (Pretty unpersuasive . . 🙄)
Of course, I guess your “adult life” could mean just about anything . . . .
GMAFB.
Mass transit can absolutely be the answer, but in order for it to work, the city planners need to actually plan the city. They can’t just take fees from developers and rubberstamp whatever they want to build. Doing that is how we end up with sprawl. Given that Las Vegas’ history is one of rubberstamping and not planning, I’m not sure what steps could be taken to effectively implement mass transit.
Mass transit is a financial boondoggle and a waste of taxpayer money. How many times do we see empty buses in the bus lane blocking traffic or at bus stops. It might have made sense to put a tram or light rail on the strip but it never happened because the casinos were concerned about where the trams would stop. Instead we go the monorail on the back of the strip.
Its not a boondoggle and waste of money elsewhere. But certainly it is here. The CAT/RTC busses provide decent coverage, but in the desert people wont ride it.
The casinos didn’t directly oppose the monorail, the cab companies killed it. The County funneled 100’s of millions into donors pockets and was never designed to be successful. If it was, it would have been elevated down the center of the Strip and connected to all the casinos.
Light rail and a better bus system was always the answer and it was killed. Now its too cost prohibitive.
i don’t think there is a single study that supports the cost effectiveness and efficiency of light rail other than with made up secondary economic benefits around rail stations. bussing is the answer but the same people that advocate for light rail would never stoop to ride a bus. light rail is a limousine liberal (maybe change to light rail liberal) pipe dream.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/100k-stunt-police-estimate-damage-to-sphere-around-six-figures-2997265/?
Las Vegas needs to make an example out of this gobshite. Throw the book at him.
I agree. I hear he did it all to protest abortion. Maybe his punishment can be to watch non-stop abortion footage in his cell until he promises to stop these stunts.
Quit yer whining. If he were protesting a certain former Prez, you would be defending him.
Nah, this take is horseshit.
It’s all a publicity stunt and there is no way that he did $100k in damage. This is a nothing case.
I don’t care if he did only $10 in damage. Nail his sorry ass to the wall and put up a sign that says, “Don’t be next.” Don’t f with Vegas landmarks.
Shove his “publicity stunt” right up his ass.
The $100k number is probably contrived PR bullshit, but we do want to discourage this type of stunt.
Keep your sexual fantasies out of our blog.
This is hardly a Vegas landmark. LOL. You are easily impressed.
But, I love that you are triggered. and I am not above positing that it was Sphere’s publicity stunt. Made the national news so hey, mission accomplished.
Definition of landmark: “an object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location.” At night it can be seen from many, if not most, areas of the valley. Can definitely be seen from the air. Every broadcast of an event taking place in Las Vegas shows the Sphere, and it also has received a lot of publicity in many, if not most, civilized areas of the world. The Sphere definitely is a Las Vegas landmark.
I am not going to accuse you of not being an attorney. But, which is it?
Estate Planning or Corporate transactions, because you have the sense of humor of a fucking bran muffin.
Land use planning or code enforcement is my guess.