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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 20:37:30 JST Yuchen Pei
Seems vastly inferior to rail
> Las Vegas: A Ride on Elon's "Vegas Loop" Did Not Change My Mind — Human Transit
https://humantransit.org/2025/01/las-vegas-a-ride-on-elons-vegas-loop.html
> It’s remarkable to me that the Clark County Commission approved this, with the head of the convention bureau calling it “the only viable way” to manage traffic on the Las Vegas Strip. Obviously, if there are no other options, there’s no need for analysis, but every transport planner knows how absurd that is. Other options include (a) extending the monorail north to downtown and south to the airport, (b) building a proper rail subway, or (c) developing light rail or BRT on the surface of Las Vegas Blvd, taking 1/3 of the traffic capacity but carrying far more than 1/3 of the corridor’s person trips. Was it easy to say yes because the Boring Company isn’t asking for public money? Certainly, but they are still taking something valuable: an enormous amount of underground real estate in public streets. This will have the effect of preventing a properly scaled subway from ever being built because its path is blocked by this warren of too-small tunnels.