[longviewJoe]

Originally Posted by BGS91762

Just returned home to So Cal from a few days in Vegas. Don’t think you can brag that the homeless situation is much better. The homeless situation, especially in the downtown area is horrendous.

Last time I was in LA's downtown I thought it was a third world country. So sad. Blocks and blocks and blocks of people living in the streets. Skid Row is now a full neighborhood!

[Mariza160]

Not that I've ever been there...but I have heard there are hundreds of
homeless living in tunnels under Las Vegas.

[Cold Warrior]

Originally Posted by Mariza160

Not that I've ever been there...but I have heard there are hundreds of
homeless living in tunnels under Las Vegas.

Not in Las Vegas. You are referring to the Las Vegas Wash.

[Mariza160]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior

Not in Las Vegas. You are referring to the Las Vegas Wash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRrxFX1wfFg

[airics]

Originally Posted by Mariza160

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRrxFX1wfFg

It is known as the Wash.

[Mariza160]

Originally Posted by airics

It is known as the Wash.

Where exactly is that then? Sorry, when he typed that..it made it
seem like he was referring to Las Vegas , Washington.

[longviewJoe]

This is a confusing thread. The tunnel dwellers are in Las Vegas I do believe. At least they are in the Las Vegas, NV metro area! Sad reality.

[WisconsinVegasHeights]

Originally Posted by airics

52
2013 aneurysm in heart, had open heart surgery (lvmench and tadtam visited me in hospital, I will never forget that)
2016 stroke
2020 cancer

I hit the trifecta

My percentage risk of having a stroke or MI are scary high, mostly because of the cigarettes. I am 49.

[WisconsinVegasHeights]

Originally Posted by longviewJoe

I agree with your first point. The reality is a lot of people rely on public transportation, and this includes people beyond the minimum wage workers, such as visitors. Let's remember most visitors don't rent cars when they come to Vegas so a great public transportation system would be welcome by many especially as our foreign tourists who are used to fine public transportation systems. I think some people think our housekeepers teleport to our house to clean it for us. Appear and disappear a few hours later. Abracadabra!

As to your second point I think it's a bit of a stretch to call streets and highways a "stupid expenditure." I would say they are a pretty necessary part of our modern society. Maybe 100 years ago we should have instituted better public transportation options but we didn't in most cities so streets and highways, though expensive, are pretty necessary.

Not always socioeconomically stratified. I rode the bus virtually every day in 2019 and my AGI for that year was 76K. Personal choice. As I have often said, it depends on your frame of reference and what you may have tolerated and endured in other cities.

Frustration ad infinitum riding a Brooklyn bus.

Also no ice here to worry about breaking your leg if a pedestrian/public transit user.

[WisconsinVegasHeights]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior

You always forget to mention that the Las Vegas Valley has an extensive bus system. Buses require no new infrastructure, are inexpensive to run, and can be added to new or existing routes very quickly as demand changes.

I enjoyed blending in like a chameleon with the common folk and riding the bus. My bank account thanked me as well.