Las Vegas Can Be Safer For Bicyclists, Walkers If It Built Paved Trails Like It Did Stadiums
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Good with stadiums and sports events. Lame in road design for walkers and bicyclists.
That’s Las Vegas and Clark County.
This is a place where hotels don’t have bike racks for visitors and guests. Fontainebleau Las Vegas and Resorts World have no places for visitors to lock up their bicycles. And Sphere Las Vegas security broke my bike locks and confiscated my bicycle when I locked my bike outside their fence on a sidewalk along Sands Avenue. Fontainbleau. Resorts World and Sphere win the award for worst Las Vegas business for bicyclists.
Clark County’s public works should be ashamed of itself. It’s a department that puts speed of drivers ahead of safety of walkers and bicyclists. There’s no sidewalk on the west side Koval Lane just north of the Harmon Avenue corner across the street from the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix building.
The Strip corridor is filled with sidewalks that have obstacles and are just plan too narrow. Like this stretch along Frank Sinatra Drive behind Caesars:
A typical metro city has a trail linking key business districts and neighborhoods. Not so here in Las Vegas.
There should be a corridor for bicyclists linking downtown Las Vegas and the Strip. Here’s a typical Las Vegas road — wide for speeding, seven lanes and dangerous for bicyclists.
The city and the county needs to work together to create a protected bike lane buffered by concrete barriers along Industrial Road/Sammy Davis Jr. Drive. Here’s what I mean:
This road is incredibly wide. It could easily be rebuilt with one protected lane dedicated to two-way bicycle traffic. But public works and government engineers here in the Las Vegas area design roads for speed — and then police and elected people wonder why so many are killed on our roads.
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