Raiders Answer Squeaky Wheel With More Bicycle Racks At Allegiant Stadium

April 20, 2023April 21, 2023 Alan Snel Justin Jones, Michael Naft, MJ Maynard, Sandra Douglass Morgan

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer

All great things start small.

If Las Vegas will be a good place to ride a bicycle, it starts with small things like more bicycle racks to secure two-wheelers at Allegiant Stadium.

So many people were bicycling to the Raiders stadium for home games last season that the existing five racks on the west side of the 62,000-seat were overwhelmed with bicycles.

So the Raiders installed 15 more bike racks on the stadium’s north side and more bike racks on the other side of the venue, too.

Two Clark County Commissioners — Michael Naft and Justin Jones — joined Raiders President Sandra Douglass Morgan and RTC CEO MJ Maynard at a 1:30PM ceremony to christen the new bike racks Thursday.

The stadium is in Naft’s commission district and Naft has been vocal about increasing transportation options to serve the domed NFL stadium on the west side of I-15 across from Mandalay Bay. Jones, a very active bicyclist, also supports improving transportation resources in a transportation-challenged county.

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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To contact LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel or buy his book, Bicycle Man: Life of Journeys, email him at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com

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