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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Mobility.
It’s a theme at the CES show this week in Las Vegas, where techies, innovators and entrepreneurs are meeting up, showing new products and basically chit-chatting their way through the four days of electronic razzle-dazzle across convention centers and hotel meeting rooms.
Movement and getting places are a strong component of the CES event, with all types of devices from Segway scooters to aircraft for one or two people on the Las Vegas Convention Center.
What’s interesting is that mobility in Las Vegas is mostly cars, and some buses.
Typically, I drive with my bicycle to a quiet side street a mile or two from the convention centers and park. Then I take the bike out of the car and pedal the five or ten minutes to the convention centers, where the bike racks are limited and poorly placed. But I deal with Las Vegas’ cluelessness on bicycle as practical transportation mode. Below is a photo showing a small bike rack serving the $1 billion West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Today I tried something different. I parked at T-Mobile Arena and took a shuttle bus from the nearby Aria to the Las Vegas Convention Center.
If I just biked to the convention center, it would have taken 15 minutes. The walk to the Aria bus was ten minutes alone, then a five-minute wait on the bus and a 20-minute bus ride to go two miles.
It’s comical that CES has all this fancy mobility technology at the show, yet it’s at least 30-45 minutes to walk to shuttle busses, wait a time and take those busses to travel two miles in the Strip corridor to the CES events.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) has paid millions of dollars in public money for Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build something called the Vegas Loop, which is actually a euphemism for Teslas in a Tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center complex and a few neighboring hotels. I prefer to simply walk and I find it’s comparable in time when you factor in wait time and getting to the seat of a Tesla in a Tunnel.
Sometimes, walking or bicycling are the most efficient modes of all in a country ruled by the law of efficiency.
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