Las Vegas Review-Journal

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

- VAL CAMPBELL LAS VEGAS JOE SCHAERER LAS VEGAS MIKE SCHAEFER LAS VEGAS

The Review-Journal welcomes letters to the editor. Letters should not exceed 300 words and must include the writer’s name, mailing address and phone number. Submission­s may be edited and become the property of the Review-Journal. Email letters@reviewjour­nal.com Mail Letters to the Editor P.O. Box 70 Las Vegas, NV 89125 Fax (702) 387-5241 current monorail goes behind everything, so it’s not much of a draw.

Why doesn’t the RTC consider making the Strip pedestrian-only, like Fremont Street? Traffic could go on a side street, which could either be one-way or not. Officials already know this is possible, because traffic is diverted on New Year’s Eve each year. I have suggested this before, but it’s either too revolution­ary or doesn’t cost enough to line someone’s pockets. cabdrivers marching around with various protest signs, including a few stating, “Keep our roads safe.” Those signs showed a little hypocrisy.

Most Las Vegas taxi drivers have very aggressive driving habits. I often observe them exceeding speed limits, moving in and out of traffic in unsafe fashion, talking on cellphones while driving and making many other unsafe maneuvers.

While many people may or may not support cabdrivers’ objections to Uber, I feel they are not the ones who should cry about keeping our roads safe. for $25,000, maybe $50,000. The UNLV event also put hundreds of copies of her new book in circulatio­n. Could you imagine candidates Dwight D. Eisenhower (president of Columbia University when he was running for office), John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan demanding big bucks to bring their message to academia? I think Mrs. Clinton should contribute $100,000 to the UNLV Foundation, and soon, if she wants to remove the greed concern that many of us have.

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