If you don’t plan on going off the Las Vegas Strip, you may not need to grab a shuttle or a taxi to get to your hotel from the airport.
The Las Vegas Monorail Company and Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority(LVCVA) board of directors want to expand the monorail to McCarran International Airport.
Vegas Buzz reports that the monorail executives told LVCVA that it needs to go to the airport to generate revenue and ridership, otherwise it can’t survive.
Currently the monorail serves the Sahara, Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas Convention Center, Harrah’s/Imperial Palace, Flamingo/Caesars Palace, Bally’s/Paris, and the MGM Grand.
Monorail President and Chief Executive Curtis Myles won’t say how much the expansion project will cost, but he has assured the Clark County Commission that it won’t cost the taxpayers anything.
If everything goes according to schedule, the first train will start its first run to McCarran in 2012. The train “will go from MGM Grand, east on Tropicana, then turn south on Swenson into the airport,” according to Myles. At the airport, it will stop at terminal one and go to an airport expansion in terminal three.
Here’s the text of the proposal (PDF).
