[KoNgFooCj]

Yeah, when the metro area reaches 10 million people.

[RationalExpectations]

Originally Posted by luckydogg

Could anything is this world ever be as bad as the 405 through West LA? Or any part of the 405 all at, from San Fernando all the way to Irvine?

Silicon Valley to Oakland on 880 & 580 sux as well, along with Silicon Valley to San Francisco on 101, and of course Pleasanton to Silicon Valley on 880 & 680.

All are soul-crushing commutes.

[Oistrakh12]

Originally Posted by KoNgFooCj

Yeah, when the metro area reaches 10 million people.

Is the vegas metro area still rapidly growing in population and will the traffic be getting worse in ten years?

[RationalExpectations]

Originally Posted by oeccscclhjhn

i wouldn't know. how bad is traffic in l.a.?

It's so bad, no one lives there.

[KoNgFooCj]

Originally Posted by Oistrakh12

Is the vegas metro area still rapidly growing in population and will the traffic be getting worse in ten years?

The metro area is currently growing by about 45,000 people a year, and with more people comes more traffic. Hopefully every applicable agency is far sighted on the matter and planning transportation projects. Brightline high speed rail between Las Vegas and SoCal will be up and running in 2023 and is expected to take lots of cars off the road.

I don't know how related to vehicle traffic this is, but a relief airport for McCarren is going to go into construction off of I-15 somewhere between Primm and Jean as soon as McCarren hits 60 million passengers a year. We're about 10 million off from that number. 50 million was originally McCarren's planned capacity, but officials are going to push it to it's limits.

[Code Stemi]

Originally Posted by KoNgFooCj

The metro area is currently growing by about 45,000 people a year.

Where do you get that figure from? Not doubting it, just curious. I'm glad we are growing.

[Camaro5]

If the entire valley is currently at 3 million people, they would have to open up huge tracts of land to accommodate more than triple the population. There is also the matter of resources, mostly water. There would certainly have to be another source other than Lake Mead which is just getting by with the people already here.

Population growth, I suppose, is inevitable, but I'm not so sure it's going to make Southern Nevada a better place.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by chahunt

Where do you get that figure from? Not doubting it, just curious. I'm glad we are growing.

In Las Vegas the only figures you'll see are those arriving but not those departing.

[Cold Warrior]

Originally Posted by KoNgFooCj

The metro area is currently growing by about 45,000 people a year, and with more people comes more traffic. Hopefully every applicable agency is far sighted on the matter and planning transportation projects. Brightline high speed rail between Las Vegas and SoCal will be up and running in 2023 and is expected to take lots of cars off the road.

I don't know how related to vehicle traffic this is, but a relief airport for McCarren is going to go into construction off of I-15 somewhere between Primm and Jean as soon as McCarren hits 60 million passengers a year. We're about 10 million off from that number. 50 million was originally McCarren's planned capacity, but officials are going to push it to it's limits.

Nope. Initial service would run between Vegas and Victorville, California, and take about zero cars off the road. If it ever is built, which has a probability of about .001%.

[Cold Warrior]

The metro area is currently growing by about 45,000 people a year,

Nope. Population growth of about 14,000 per year is projected in Clark County over the next twenty years. You do realize that Las Vegas is in Clark County, Nevada, right? See

Table 17: Comparison of Projections for 2034 from the final 2015 Issued Projections and the Current 2016 DRAFT Projections

https://tax.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/taxnvgov/Content/TaxLibrary/Nevada_County_Population_Projections_2016_to_2035. pdf