Brief: New route rejected by some Strip resorts

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999 | 11:14 a.m.

Representatives of the Desert Inn, The Venetian and the Treasure Island hotel-casinos met on Wednesday with Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury and said they would oppose a route proposed by the MGM-Bally's Monorail LLC.

Monorail officials had hoped to include the Fashion Show Mall and the Stardust and New Frontier hotel-casinos into their route. But in order to accomplish that, the track would have to go onto Desert Inn property in order to avoid a planned pedestrian overpass at Spring Mountain Road and Las Vegas Boulevard.

Woodbury said today he would recommend going back to the original route, which would skirt a portion of Desert Inn Estates, a neighborhood along the Desert Inn golf course.