Las Vegas streets are becoming more and more difficult to travel. There is roadwork everywhere. The trouble is, many places that have been coned off never get worked on. They’ll have cones up for nearly two weeks and there will never be any construction in the area. It’s as if the City and County are using our public roads as a place to store their cones and barrels—a kind of busy work to do by placing them out and then picking them back up. This also gives the illusion that we are growing and thriving because our tax dollars are hard at work fixing the streets. Seriously, are city planners planning this work wisely? They’ll blockade several main streets at one time creating bottlenecks in every direction someone can travel. Maybe it’s time to take a closer look at what seems at best to be bad planning and at worst a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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This article hits the nail right on the head. How long are we suppose to put up with this “infrastructure improvement” pojects. For example, they finsihed the 95 last year which was mass gridlock to be polite. Now they are saying they need to “upgrade” the 95 again. They just finished! Why couldn’t they wait and do it write the first time? I don’t want to fault NVDOT, there are only doing what they have the budget to do. So maybe we should look at the people allocating these funds and and planning the projects. At the top, they are elected officials. If they don’t have the foresight to adequately plan infrastructure. Do they have the foresight to take this city into the next millenium?