Letter: No celebration for bus riders on New Year’s Eve

Friday, Jan. 4, 2002 | 9:04 a.m.

We planned on spending New Year's Eve watching the fireworks from the Strip. We had heard the advertisement from Citizens Area Transit (CAT) -- leave the driving to us, at no cost, we will be your designated driver.

That sounded great, so we called CAT and asked for schedules and pick-up points for Route 105. We were given the times and locations; the most significant was the after-midnight schedule. We were told that the pick-up point would be Industrial and Spring Mountain at 12:51 a.m. and 1:51 a.m. We confirmed this with the driver as we exited the bus.

After the fireworks we headed for the designated stop and waited and waited, and no bus showed. Finally we gave up and hailed a taxi. We were told that to go the eight miles to our home in the Lakes area, the charge would be $25 a head.

So for the four of us it would have been $100. I'm sure that cabbie would have expected a healthy tip. After politely saying no thanks to the driver, we called a friend, and he drove down and picked us up. So much for the promises and a typical Las Vegas ripoff.

RAYMOND HARBERT