User profile: VegasResident

I think if we all looked at where all the cabs were driving when they are empty...not on the strip but on Industrial and other side roads, it is very easy to see that cabs are not using the most efficient ways between hotels etc for passengers, but only for themselves. They will only use the fast route if it is longer in distance and worth it to them (i.e. the infamous tunnel long haul)

We are willing to build the train to nowhere (Victorville) but unwilling to connect the strip to the airport (which is one of the things I love about Atlanta)

Who owns Las Vegas? The cab companies. I commute the 215 daily and see more long hauls than I can shake a stick at because I know cabbies are hedging that the authority wont be watching.

What is so fair to riders now?

I myself got long hauled just before I moved here It was to the Luxor and dropped off on the wrong side of the building.

Idling $$ crapola...cabbies take the slowest routes just so they can idle forever on the strip.

The sheer fact that all the locals are on the side streets along with the EMPTY cabs making good time to try to get to thier next fare tells you they are abusing the system.

They have too much power as shown by when they clogged the strip honking in protest over losing their kickbacks from clubs. So the city gave in and continue them to practice an ILLEGAL kickback.

At the very least there should be one flat fare for the airport to strip since that is the most abused part of the system.

"The county has about 180 employees in management positions"
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FOUL! there are more than that for sure. Only 180 managers in 12,000 employees? 1 out of 66 employees? I do not know who they include, but they should include the hundreds and hundreds of useless Supervisor positions that sit between Management and the actual workers and whom do nothing except collect over $100,000 a year.

"The Clark County Commission this week will consider a "separation program" that will allow for managers to participate. "But we're also going to review our management structure across the county and see if there are areas where we can reorganize management and potentially eliminate management positions," Don Burnette, the county's chief administrative officer, said.

The county has about 180 employees in management positions, about 2.5 percent of its workforce. About 28 percent of the county's management positions are vacant."
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I read the paperwork on their website.

First to voluntary program is offered to both management and non management.

Second, it includes an INVOLUNTARY separation program for management (read: layoffs) which is good because I know departments where over 30% of the staff is management and you hear management saying..."oh the separation program still isnt sweet enough...I will wait till it gets better when the County is really hard up" At least now they will be tossed out.

Third, the program DOES NOT INCLUDE the fire department which is made up of the most overpaid employees in the County who gave up ZERO, BUPKIS, NADA f their raises, educational reimbursements, COLAs, etc.

And yet again, the fire department comes out on top