Letter: Focus plans on Strip congestion

Thursday, March 9, 2000 | 9:45 a.m.

The owners of the resort properties along Las Vegas Boulevard should reach into their pockets and adopt that stretch of road just as the downtown hotels did to Fremont Street. Funnel noncommercial vehicles to back entrances via expanded secondary roads, and close the resort district stretch of the Strip to taxis and mass transit only.

If not, take the "high road" by constructing an elevated train over or right along the boulevard, just as was done to great success many decades ago in downtown Chicago. Provide ample, dependable shuttle service to the Convention Center if that is a concern as well.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that $600 million would be better spent moving more bodies up and down the Strip, instead of away from it.

DAVID A. HEATON

Mount Pleasant, Iowa

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