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Old 07-08-2021, 12:03 PM
 
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Typical? Fly into Salt Lake City, Denver, Portland, San Francisco, Phoenix and L.A., and there's a train waiting for you to zip you into the city. The problem with Sinless City is there's 9-10,000 taxi drivers, and they create a huge lobbying force for the Clark County Commissioners. Add to that, an extremely conservative populace!
Read up on it here: https://www.boringcompany.com/vegas-loop
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Old 07-08-2021, 01:20 PM
 
Location: Southern Highlands
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I wouldn't put sabotage above the taxi drivers in Las Vegas, if something is going to cut into their bread and butter.

I knew a retired taxi driver when the Monorail opened up, and there were these mysterious incidents of wheels falling off. Mysterious? This retired taxi driver, without blinking an eye, said it was sabotage.
Nothing can be more legitimate than the guess of a nameless person who no longer works in the industry as told to an anonymous person on the internet.
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Old 07-08-2021, 02:29 PM
 
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Its Federal grants and native American lobby money that makes this wheel go round and round to nowhere.
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Old 07-11-2021, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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Typical? Fly into Salt Lake City, Denver, Portland, San Francisco, Phoenix and L.A., and there's a train waiting for you to zip you into the city. The problem with Sinless City is there's 9-10,000 taxi drivers, and they create a huge lobbying force for the Clark County Commissioners. Add to that, an extremely conservative populace!
Clark county is not conservative. It’s liberal through and blue.
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Old 07-11-2021, 04:10 PM
 
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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I wouldn't put sabotage above the taxi drivers in Las Vegas, if something is going to cut into their bread and butter.

I knew a retired taxi driver when the Monorail opened up, and there were these mysterious incidents of wheels falling off. Mysterious? This retired taxi driver, without blinking an eye, said it was sabotage.
Nahh the Uber drivers did it
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Old 07-11-2021, 08:14 PM
 
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Clark county is not conservative. It’s liberal through and blue.
Clark County has Michelle Fiore (https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...-nevada-213960) and the North Vegas Mayor recently became a Republican. While it definitely leans liberal, I wouldn’t call it liberal through and blue here. There are a lot of Midwestern and Southern retirees and transplants here and they are very conservative. Vegas has a very active gun culture. Even with all the migration from the west, this is definitely not California.
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Old 07-11-2021, 11:39 PM
 
Location: Aliante
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New article has more details on the project. It will be the fastest high speed train in the country traveling 200 mph and it will cost 8 Billion dollars, still slated to start in 2022 but has already been delayed due to having trouble raising funding during Covid. The parcel of land they purchased for their Las Vegas train terminal cost 140 million. The article has renderings of the Brightline train. No renderings of the train terminal yet. I believe it goes to Victorville. They've been talking about this and trying to do a train for years on and off. It will help ease the congestion between here and L.A. I love taking the train up and down the West Coast. I hope this goes through.

https://www.casino.org/news/las-vega...ed-for-casino/
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Old 07-12-2021, 12:56 AM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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Clark County has Michelle Fiore (https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...-nevada-213960) and the North Vegas Mayor recently became a Republican. While it definitely leans liberal, I wouldn’t call it liberal through and blue here. There are a lot of Midwestern and Southern retirees and transplants here and they are very conservative. Vegas has a very active gun culture. Even with all the migration from the west, this is definitely not California.
And the many Californians who move to Sinless city are the conservative, no-more-tax types, adding to the conservatism of Sinless City, overriding the wishes of the natives here.
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Old 07-12-2021, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Southern Highlands
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overriding the wishes of the natives here
Where? Somewhere in Arizona?
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Old 07-12-2021, 12:37 PM
 
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It will help ease the congestion between here and L.A. I love taking the train up and down the West Coast.
The train will have limited ability to ease congestion as it starts in Victorville. Once you've battled the LA traffic and made it though the Cajon Pass which was built in 1969, it is usually fast driving to get to Las Vegas. Most people won't stop and wait for a train and pay the additional money.

Many people feel the train will be filled primarily with ticketholders that were comped by casinos.
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