Bicyclists Arriving At Allegiant Stadium Prompts Raiders To Add Bike Racks
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer
The Las Vegas Raiders are installing more bicycle racks at Allegiant Stadium in response to more people arriving at the stadium by bicycle.
The stadium site, which has only about 2,600 car parking spots, also has a lack of bicycle racks. There are only five bicycle racks near the southwest entrance off Polaris Avenue that are packed with two-wheelers on Raiders game day. There are another five bike racks on the south side of the stadium, but those are not well seen from the road and hardly used.
In addition, the stadium will strip bike lanes to the new bike racks outside the domed, 62,000-seat stadium.
“We have identified the new locations and are currently procuring the materials needed to make this happen,” said Christopher Sotiropulos, vice president for stadium operations for the Raiders.
“In addition, we are also in the processing of creating bike lane routes so guests who are arriving on bicycles can take the safest route to any of the locations where they can lock up their bike,” he wrote to LVSportsBiz.com.
Sotiropulos said not know when the new bike racks will be installed.
“We are working with our vendors to try and get supplies as quickly as possible,” he said.
The League of American Bicyclists, a national bicycle organization that ranks states on their bicycle support, put Nevada at number 34 out of 50 states. You can see the 2022 Bicycle Friendly States report, which used five criteria to rank states.
Many hotel-casinos along the Strip are unfriendly to bicyclists as most do not have safe bike parking areas. And their bike racks are often far from a hotel entrance. LVSportsBiz.com even had to lobby LVCVA chief Steve Hill to install bike racks at its new Las Vegas Convention Center expansion. The West Hall expansion was a $1 billion project and it didn’t even include bike racks when it opened.
Southern Nevada motorists are killing and injuring bicyclists at a record rate and the county’s effort to stop the road violence is asking motorists to slow down and not drive impaired.
Bicycling can potentially be an effective transportation tool to reach to the Raiders’ stadium. But many people feel Las Vegas area motorists drive recklessly and endanger bicyclists’ lives.
