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Letter: Efficient rail system would best answer for casinos

Thursday, Sept. 19, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

We don't need a monorail for sightseeing either. After the fiascos of the Minami tower that never was, plastic pop art on City Hall and a Stratosphere resort that never got off the ground, Las Vegas needs a miracle on Main Street. Like the fixed-rail system between San DIego and Tijuana. Jokesters refer to it as the Tijuana Trolley. Las Vegas needs a functional, inexpensive, money-making system like that, running from the south of the Strip through downtown with a loop at Cashman Field to return via Main Street. It will revitalize all of downtown for a fraction of the cost of a monorail.

I propose, for some of the money saved, we erect at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard, St. Louis Avenue and Main Street, a plaster-of-paris statue in honor of the mayor of Vegas. We could have a contest to name it. How about the Calamity Dame?

Jan Storm

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