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europa92103

We need the train service but the distribution system in Las Vegas has to be updated. Presently shuttle companies can only take passengers from the airport to hotels. In other cities they can go to private residences and train and bus stations too. The taxi cab monopoly must be stopped, especially with there illegal practices of long hauling via the airport tunnels. The train service must be supported by NV equivalent to the subsidies to the airlines and highways. Three round trips daily using the existing track with passing sidings built by the state with a current reliable schedule would work, especially with all kinds of feeder service from Metrolink and the Subways to Union Station. If the trains have enough engines pulling them, the steep grades from Kelso to Cima and Cajon pass can be made at reasonable speed, despite all the money weighing down the train. Once in Vegas if shuttles can pick up the passengers with baggage and CAT can take those without the service can be successful with current trains run by Amtrak with a subsidy similar to the help that the state of California gives Amtrak.

The unions are a right that workers have to protect themselves from corporate greed. With corporations paying CEO's hundreds of times more than their workers, using corporation funds for political purposes, thereby also screwing the stockholders out of dividend money. it is only fair to have unions to let those who make all these profits possible, the regular workers get their fair share.

The solution is simple. One should not be drivng when public transit is available. Businesses, employers, and landlords should not be subsidizing the automobile with free parking while doing nothing for the transit user. UNLV is the worse offender, plans for 5 parking garages in the works and the parking fees only set to cover policing, maintenance, signs, and cleaning of the parking areas with the cost of the structure and land a pure subsidy. Meanwhile they have shuttles for those who drive but they don't go to the CAT bus stops -one has to go to where one would park a car and then walk to the bus stop. Driving is wrong most of the time when transit is available. Spend any money allocated for increased lanes and roads to extend the monorail to downtown and the airport with a stop at Thomas and Mack. Implement the MAX program for all major routes and increase the number of buses in use to meet new demand. Parking meters should also be in use on the first day of the week, Sunday, as well.