Las Vegas Monorail leaving Flamingo station

The Bank West of Nevada monorail departs the Flamingo station in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Las Vegas Monorail is a privately owned and operated public transit system that opened in 2004 behind several casinos on the east side of The Strip (Las Vegas Boulevard). The line is short (less than 4 miles), but will hopefully expand to the McCarran airport.

Bombardier Transportation provides the vehicles and signaling while several other companies (including one now part of Jacobs Engineering) built the stations and track based on the ALWEG track design (also used at Disneyland and Walt Disney World).

The article on Wikipedia has more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Monorail

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[jaworskij]

This is the monorail that had oodles of technical problems and the City sued or something like that, and then the people said they should have built an LRT or subway instead?

[jamesbondsv]

Start your own research at the Las Vegas Monorail Wikipedia article. I don't know about what you're saying - I don't remember hearing or reading stuff about that, except possibly the technical problems. However, all railways have technical problems - that's why they undergo lengthy testing.

I will opine that the hotels and their owners really botched the system because they forced the train to behind their buildings, where they're very inaccessible and not visible to people walking on the Strip.

[sideslide23]

This Monorail was popular to take untill Star Trek left the Hilton.

[BangkokBoy101]

I agree.The Monorail should have been built on the Strip and modeled after the Skytrain in Bangkok.

In my opinion the Monorail is a lot better then the Deuce bus.Yes it's a bit more money but you're not stuck in traffic moving 10 feet at a time and crammed into it like sardines.

[pdxjules]

@derekcsy90 Referring to the radiation risk which _derailed_ the Beijing Mag-Lev type Tram.

Misslers would run on Renewable energy generated along the route, would be fast to build,

and proposes to repay development costs.

[JohnLeeMD]

Imagine how sweet this thing would've been, if... in addition to being a conveyance, it also served as an actual attraction--taking the rider in, around, across (LV Blvd!) and (possibly) actually through LV casinos! The thing would've costed more, for sure. BUT--it would've actually been a BOON to the Strip and the city, attracting riders! ...instead of being the albatross that it actually has become.

[scottman624]

I helped design this Monorail in Ontario Canada. Yes it has some problems

[derekcsy90]

@pdxjules I have never heard of Ben Missler's overhead City-to-City Tram. I don't understand why you say monorails are dangerous, but I do agree that they are expensive to build and maintain.

[tickyul]

This is what you get with public transit, a real dose of humanity. And for all of you big time fans of PT, most public transit loses money big time, most people avoid it because you must deal with the dregs of society.

I mean, how the hell can NYC transit have a budget shortfall of 800 MILLION? The population density for NYC and the ridership levels should make this area a goldmine for transit in this area, how do you expect areas with less density and ridership to just break even?

[gocheapvegas]

terrible

[pdxjules]

Anything ground based is dangerous and expensive. Ben Missler has designed a great over-head City to City Tram solution that mostly uses off-the shelf technology, and can intersect with ship, train, Park and Rides and urban transit systems. To run on (& sell) clean energy along the route, to help cover costs & reduce ticket price.

[attackeagle]

these were some of the Mk IV monorails from Disney World.