Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Las Vegas

Using L.A. Traffic Counts to Justify Sprawl in the Arizona-Nevada Desert

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | | 22 Comments
A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good.  Arizona and Nevada have proposed a […]

Talking Headways: Jeff’s Milkshake

By Tanya Snyder | | 1 Comment
Forgive us for the unacceptable two-week gap between podcast episodes but this one is totally worth the wait. Feast on our in-depth exploration of three transit lines (in order of fantasy to reality): Las Vegas, Minneapolis, and Salt Lake City. Despite having population density that rivals Manhattan, the Las Vegas strip doesn’t have high-quality transit […]

American BRT: A Rapid Bus Network Expands in Las Vegas

By Dani Simons | | 6 Comments
Last month the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy released its report, “Recapturing Global Leadership in Bus Rapid Transit” [PDF], which proposed a LEED-like rating system for bus rapid transit projects and laid out a strategy for American cities to build systems as good as the world’s best BRT. While more than 20 American bus […]