Mono rail expansion to Mandy Bay/Raiders stadium

Over the weekend, the monorail expansion was unveiled, planning to extend the current monorail from it's end point at MGM to Mandy Bay close to the Raiders new stadium site.

The route seems pretty odd though. :confused: From the current end point at MGM the monorail would head east (away from strip) to Koval road, then turn south to Reno Road then west on Reno, crossing the strip to Mandalay Bay property.

Only one additional station is planned at the Mandalay Bay location. Despite that the current projected route will take the monorail close to south east corner of Trop Property, there is no plans for a station there and even dumber in my opinion is that this route would actually take the Monorail onto McCarran Airport land as it travels along Koval Road between Tropicana and Reno, and their are no plans to connect to the Airport.

An airport connection has been talked about for years, since the monorail opened, but there is fierce opposition from the taxi/limo industry for obvious reasons. Just imagine though....an Airport connection would actually make that monorail useful. :rolleyes: AND alleviate traffic problems.

I'm going to take a guess that for the one mile extension the land costs would be lower than if built along the Strip. And from this Review Journal article the bigger concern is linking the convention space.

I've never been on it.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...paign=20171218

What a stupid idea.

There's already a free tram that runs from Excalibur to MB.

http://res.cloudinary.com/stephens-m...3-Dec17-17.jpg


I agree this is stupid. The expansion is showed with the dotted line.

KewlJ summed it up well. They are missing golden opportunities to stop at the airport, and to a lesser degree, the Trop, and they are doing neither.

This is only useful if you want to go from another part of the strip to NEAR (but not at) the Mandalay Bay. Can't imagine this getting much utilization.

Also, according to the article, the company doing this is a financial mess, and constantly hemmorhages money on this project.

For anyone who may not know, the monorail cost $1 if you have a Nevada drivers license or state Id (as opposed to the like $8 tourist price). If you are playing the lower end of the strip, like Trop / MGM, maybe parked at Hooters and want to zip up to mid-strip Harrahs / Linq area, or even all the way to the other end, to Westgate (former Hilton), or SLS, it's not a bad deal.

They should run it to the airport; that makes more sense.