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Monday, Jan. 19, 2009 | 10:03 a.m.
Bombardier Transportation, which operates and maintains the Las Vegas Monorail, said today it received a five-year extension of that contract from the Las Vegas Monorail Co.
The company, based in Berlin, said the deal is valued at about $58 million.
Bombardier has operated the system since it opened in 2004. The monorail, with a fleet of nine four-car trains, has seven stations on the four-mile route between the MGM Grand and Sahara hotel-casinos.
"Essential to reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions, this driverless transit system has carried more than 33 million passengers, and in 2008 operated at an on-time average performance of over 99 percent,” Michael Shaman, vice president of operations and maintenance at Bombardier Transportation’s Systems Division, said in a statement.
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when it is cheaper and easier to get a cab then something is not right here.
Las Vegas has a Monorail?
Why not? They have done just an outstanding job so far. LOL
I went to MGM Grand to take the Monorail to wherever, and found that the walk from the parking garage to the station was like a trek to Mars. The designers of this joke must have been on Meth-how do you get to the Venetian and Wynn? More walking. Stupidest idea ever-except that when it goes BK, the taxpayer doesn't take it in the shorts. For once....
the monorail is the epitome of the word BOONDOGGLE.
Where is the dough coming from to subsidize this nonsense?
I know I would make use of this system if it went all the to the airport, as millions more would too! Not going to happen. The wheeled transport companies would have a fit, Some how I think they have more of a say then a Berlin company.