Two Southern Sagebrush State officials are calling for a wider Interstate 15 linking Southern Calif. to Las Vegas and its tourism-dependent casinos.
Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom told the Las Vegas Sun he is skeptical of the impact a proposed high-speed prepare power have got in connecting Las Vegas to Southern California.
Segerblom said he prefers widening I-15, the briny route for a fifth of the Las Vegas Valley’s tourists every year. Traffic congestion sledding rearwards to Southern Calif. on Sundays canful at to the lowest degree forked a four-hour proceeds drive, creating frustrations.
“There’s no more best investment funds than to supply single or II lanes to a greater extent to I-15,” Segerblom said. “If we’re going to build the railroad, wherefore non append the lanes at the same time?”
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman also wants I-15 to live widened. On July 28, she tweeted that 77 percent of Nevada’s freight rate is carried on trucks.
“This makes the widening of the I-15 critically of import to hold freight moving seamlessly crosswise the country,” she tweeted.
From Las Vegas to the CA border, I-15 has sixer lanes, ternary on the southward side of meat toward Los Angeles and triplet sledding N to Las Vegas.
Goodman called for I-15 to follow widened from quaternity to vi lanes from the Sagebrush State march townsfolk of Primm to Barstow, Calif. This would aid with the “efficient movement of goods and people,” she tweeted. The tweet included a map out showing the proposed 114-mile project.
Segerblom said traffic frustrations are a reason for concern. Motorists stuck inward “back-to-back traffic” will have got a storage of Las Vegas that won’t follow positive, he told the Las Vegas Sun.
It’s non salubrious to get that variety of backed-up traffic,” he said.
Traffic issues are having an impact on tourism. The one-year keep down of Las Vegas visits from Southern Californians is land from 2.4 times to 1.7, in constituent because of the traffic, touristry officials said.
California Priorities
Any travail to widen the highway inwards the Golden State would require funding from the Golden State Department of Transportation, known as Caltrans, officials told the newspaper.
“The job lies in California, where traffic is choked land to II lanes in from each one direction after crosswalk the res publica line, resulting inwards backups,” said Tony Illia, the NV Department of Transportation spokesman. “Although we go along to have an supporting on-going duologue with Caltrans, their transport disbursal priorities don’t necessarily adjust with those of Nevada.”
Train Construction Delayed
The Brightline Occident high-velocity develop would link up Las Vegas to Apple Valley, Calif., virtually 90 miles E of Los Angeles. That send in San Bernardino County at long last would live linked to downtown Los Angeles.
The rail would move around on I-15 at 200 mph, making it the fastest railroad train inwards the US. Construction was localise to commence this summer, but has been delayed until at to the lowest degree 2022. Construction is expected to lastly three years.
In recent weeks, Brightline purchased a 110-acre lot W of the Las Vegas Strip for a train station. Brightline Holdings CEO Michael Reininger said the shore acquisition is evidence of the company’s allegiance to the train project.