I disagree that the Las Vegas Streip needs to be saved in the first place. It's a giant tourist trap surrounded by addiction and economic depression.
What authentic culture does exist in Las Vegas is all downtown, which is actually pretty walkable.
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I was in Vegas for a week back in March, I walked about 35 miles the whole time. I think about half of it in one day that I had entirely to myself. It was way more enjoyable than spending time time in the car, basically the longest bar crawl I've ever been on lol
I tried not to cross the strip (on the street) too much, but it wasn't impossible. The pedestrian bridges were great.
I'm sure my experience is far from the average though.
I was stunned at the lack of solar panels in Vegas. You would think offering shade and electricity at the same time would be a good idea in the desert.
Mindblowing lack of vision...
When I went not long ago, the nearby desert had lots of solar. There was actually a fight about putting more solar, and the utility thought they compromised by putting it up on a mesa, but people griped that it would look bad for skydivers...
In the city there is little. You'd think with all the ac people would invest in anything to make bills cheaper in summer.
Yep, your temple to greed corruption and organized crime needs expanded public transit, that will fix everything
Corporate America EEE'd Las Vegas. Give it back to the Mafia.
Vegas is in decline not because of lack of pedestrian capability, is just kind of pointless.
Gambling? Well you can gamble much closer to home.
Shows? It's kind of arbitrary that Vegas was the hotspot, but the residencies are pretty much the same ones they had twenty years ago, and everything else you can find essentially the same show on tour.
Accommodations once luxurious haven't really kept up, again mostly monuments for how they were two decades ago. Preserving some of the ambition of back then but tossing a lot of it toward the end of saving money, and not really investing in keeping things as nice as you'd expect.
So what you have is the hubris of "look how far we pushed a city on the middle of the desert".
Las vegas already has an amazing elevated pedestrian system and is incredibly easy to traverse. Some casinos and attractions have designed their buildings to use this as direct ingress points. I do wish more large cities have a pedestrian network above ground level. It's super cool. But closing the strip won't bring new capabilities.
You have a city in a desert and for the majority, driving is the cheapest option. Diverting all strip traffic to parallel 2-lane roads will quickly saturate capacity.
Not to mention driving down the strip is an attraction to some.
Better yet, cut off the water and leave it to the bugs and rattlesnakes.
Maybe also put up a memorial plaque: "The house always wins, but only if you play."
Lol "cut off the water"
Nothing needs doing less. The entirety of the SW is entering the "FO" phase of 1950s hubris, and LV is low-hanging fruit. With the advent of the Internet and business model change to maximize revenue in every single moment, it's easy to lose to online gambling as a proposition it was always going to be an uphill climb.
That would be a major benefit. The monorail isn't really efficient.
Lower prices of food and entertainment to normal prices at least. Or better yet. Go back to the almost free model that encouraged people to come and then gamble. You still make money on the gambling hand over foot.
I hardly gamble when I'm there because what money I would have to gamble is instead being spent on the astronomical food. Even what is normal fast food is literally double the price just because it's location.
Get rid of the ridiculous resort fees that just hide the real price of the hotel room. This surcharge on every night for "pool and wifi" is just fucking stupid. We know that's what our regular room rates include.
Just stop being generally hostile to the people visiting.
You'd have to air-condition the sidewalks. I've walked 10min in LV and gotten heat stroke.
Best just to write it off as the colossal waste it is and let it be reclaimed by the dust.
Las Vegas was and still is a mistake that prides itself in ignoring the reality of the landscape around it, what city could embody the US better?
Or cut prices so $5 blackjack tables are a thing again with booze freely given while you gamble.
Seriously! I visited last year and I got stuck in traffic for 4 fucking hours trying to return to the same hotel because a certain dufus thought the event was too far to walk! Same block!!!! She literally wanted to go park on the opposite end of the same fucking hotel! OMG! 4 hours no kidding. They jumped off the car, watched circ de sole entirely and I was still in traffic!!!!!. My car was also running out of fuel but we managed to get the F out of there on fumes, get lost and accidentally find a gas station right before the engine gave out at the pump. I cannot reinstate how stupid a decision is to drive thru the strip. Just walk. And or during the summer heat they should provide tunnels to walk thru or people movers.
It's to big of an area.