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A face-lift for Maryland Parkway? Big ideas wanted for corridor project
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19 November 2012
7 p.m.
Maryland Parkway is the busiest north-south street in Las Vegas after the world-famous Las Vegas Boulevard. Because it’s a direct route between downtown Las Vegas and McCarran International Airport and passes some of the city’s top traffic generators — UNLV, the Boulevard mall and Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center — transportation leaders are looking to enhance Maryland Parkway and have taken the first step in the transition. To David Swallow, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada’s project manager on the Maryland Parkway Alternatives Analysis Study, the four-mile stretch of Maryland Parkway is a blank canvas for a potential work ...
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How about a monorail from downtown to the airport on Maryland? Stops at Sunrise Hospital, Boulevard Mall and UNLV. Run it down the center of the Blvd., with connector buses.
Use the huge unused parking lot behind the Boulevard Mall as a transit center/park & ride lot to then connect the monorail to other places in the city via the bus.
Just my 2 cents.
Dam a few weeks of no orange barrels. Now you want to screw everything again.
Please no more orange barrels.
Instead of spending a bunch of wasted money on signage, buses and shopping access they could employ several more cops to help with all the crime we have down here and the homeless/panhandling problems. Our area is ridden with criminal/homeless activity. I read that Desert Inn and Maryland Parkway had the highest concentration of homeless in the city. Just my opinion. 7'
"To David Swallow, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada's project manager on the Maryland Parkway Alternatives Analysis Study, the four-mile stretch of Maryland Parkway is a blank canvas for a potential work of art. All that's missing is the subject and the medium."
Swallow is far too eager to spend scarce public funds. Typical of those too used to sucking on the public teat.
Feed the hungry and help them stay warm, Swallow. That's a far more worthy "subject."
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from your government and I'm here to help.'" -- the late President Ronald Reagan
A pedestrian overpass bridge for the two walkways near UNLV is a great idea.