Sin City Streets

Title basically. If you've visited Las Vegas, you probably know about the Deuce, the charming double-deckers that slowly wend their way from casino to casino along the Strip, and you might know about the SDX, which does what the Deuce does but faster (and in its own lane-- after it leaves the area with the heaviest traffic congestion). I strongly doubt you know about the Boulder Highway Express and Sahara Express, two rapid routes with signal priority, level boarding, and dedicated lanes, and I guarantee you don't know that similar features are present on routes 202 Flamingo and 113 N. Vegas as well. Huge swathes of the Las Vegas Valley are served by frequent, reliable busways, but it's hard to know that without actually riding the system. As the ever-excellent Human Transit points out , right-of-way and stop spacing are the two most important factors for reliable transit. Five routes in the Las Vegas Valley have Class B rights-of-way, dedicated lanes just for buses and...

Hello, world! It's Allie again. I* ran a transportation blog for nearly six years in my old city, and I wasn't going to start a new one here in the big, bad desert, I wasn't. Surely somebody out here was talking about urbanism and transit issues in America's 29th-largest city! Surely that was a job that I didn't want or need to do, what with finishing a dissertation, teaching at a new campus, and just generally getting settled in a new city for the first time since I left high school. But no! There is nobody in Las Vegas-- at least that's Googleable-- who is writing about urbanism and alternative transportation issues. Nobody. I wasn't going to let that get me started either, nope. But dear readers, I am falling in love with a new city and I have things to say about her! My personal social media audience isn't going to go for this kind of geekery, and the general consensus on Las Vegas in urbanist circles is pretty much set: it's an irresponsible...