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Conceptual designs for the F Street project were scattered throughout the workshop Tuesday.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 | 12:21 p.m.
Citizens in West Las Vegas voiced their opinions Tuesday at a second design workshop on the reopening of F Street at I-15.
Seated in small groups at the Doolittle Community Center, interested residents engaged in nearly three hours of discussion about the new F Street connection, received updates from the previous design workshop and provided their perspective on what the project should entail.
Their primary concerns were drawn into a few categories: preserving and enhancing the community’s history, starting an overall improvement of the area, finishing the project in a timely and cost-effective manner and promoting economic development for the neighborhood.
"The design should restore and sustain the history of the community," read one of the cards submitted by the small groups. Another said it should "provide appropriate mobility for the best in community safety."
The attendees also touched on bicycle and pedestrian pathways, controlling the presence of the homeless and beautifying the location.
Representatives from the city of Las Vegas, the Nevada Department of Transportation and PBSJ, the participating engineering firm, facilitated the conversation.
The reconnection project was birthed from widespread protests when F Street was closed in September 2008 as part of widening I-15 north of the Spaghetti Bowl. The city and NDOT announced in May that a series of workshops would incorporate the community’s opinions into the effort.
Mary Ann Price, public information specialist for the city, said the next workshop would be announced after engineers and officials had time to review and revise the design plans. Interested citizens can check out the project’s Facebook page or Twitter account for updates.
Sun Archives
- State officials: F Street link to be reopened (5-22-2010)
- Board OKs pursuing stimulus money for F Street project (8-26-2009)
- Senate overrides F Street veto; cost estimated at $45M (6-1-2009)
- Senate panel advances initiative to reopen F Street (5-15-09)
- F Street: Taking on the Road to Nowhere (5-14-2008)
- Protesters march against closure of F Street (4-18-2009)
- Roadwork works up West Las Vegans (12-1-2008)
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Why not tell us how much this politically motivated project is costing taxpayers?
Is it still 45-50 million dollars?
Weekly...or weakly? Oscar's boy.
The citizens of west Las Vegas main complaint was "no access" however they managed to have access for a successful march to city hall in protest of the closing of the F street access.
It sounds like sour grapes to me, I no longer have my short cut to the downtown casino's, boo-hoo, waa-waa-waa, here - I'll buy you a box of tissues, I'm tired of the crying because I can't have my way.
If the citizens of west Las Vegas want the F street access reopened, let them pay for it!!!!
Welcome to Step 1 of "how to use eminent domain on minority and low income people's homes."
White Guilt pure and simple. Please wake me up when this is over so that we can begin to throw money at some other blighted area just because they belly ache the loudest.
The best commentary on this issue was the comment made a while back that we could lease a charter bus for 24 / 7 free transportation to anyone that lived in the area to get to shopping and dining in other parts of the valley at a fraction of the cost.
Widespread protests?
So something that affects a handful gets to be paid by thousands of taxpayers.
Where do I sign up for the protest of spending my taxpayer dollars on something that doesn't benefit me or others.
How about using the money to feed and clothe people in these tough times..
40+ million dollars to open up one street. I call bs on that one
and Patrick..
Eminent domain has been used against people of all races and incomes..
People want to make something a race issue only when it benefits them.
Whose fault is it they live next to the freeway?
waste of time and space. Just build through them.
"public information specialist for the city"...how many tax dollars does that totally necessary job cost us? Does it rate right up there with police officer or firefighter, or is it more akin to groundskeeper at the park?
The expense of the program is universally hated. Why can't there be a counter protest movement against this absurd waste of tax dollars?
Its only 1/3 of a mile from H Street to D Street. Reopening F Street will only save a slight inconvenience. The neighborhood was blighted before F Street was closed and will remain blighted if it is reopened at much expense to the public. The new sound walls hide the blight from the view of passing motorists - out of sight out of mind. Oh well, at least engineering firms and construction firms and construction workers will make a buck. I doubt that reopening F street will do much to improve the neighborhood. It would be a different story if all this effort and expense were to be used to actually improve the neighborhood.
Vision behind the "F Street" project belies what critics are alleging. There were even a few naysayers in the '80s who could not "see" the vision of Summerlin, nor The Meadows School. To better understand the real history of Las Vegas, ask yourself a couple of questions:
1) Who provided much of the labor to build Las Vegas and the Nevada Test Site? Answer: Blacks.
2) Who created the original music that was "covered" by White artists like Elvis? Answer: Blacks.
For the multi-bejillions of dollars that have been pocketed by the White Strip "players" and DOE contractors, I think southern Nevadans cannot afford not to truly support the "F Street" project. And, like it has been said before: no statue has EVER been erected to a critic.
I accidentally ended up in the "lettered" streets - it was pretty scary!
I wonder how long it will be after the F Street/I-515 interchange opens before the same bunch will be complaining about how the increase in traffic is destroying the neighborhood serenity?
F street should be renamed Obama Avenue and D street should be named for the student athlete killed by Metro.