Strip subway subpar

To the editor:

I cannot believe we are revisiting a subway on the Strip (“Strip subway system proposed,” May 28 ReviewJournal). Due to the pressure of the casino industry and the Nevada Taxicab Authority, this idea was previously squelched, and officials instead decided to invest millions of dollars to landscape the Strip median with palm trees. The money for that program was burning a hole in someone’s pocket. Major fail.

The R-J article included an illustration of the proposed subway route. It looks exactly like the proposed route for the original monorail. The RTC can’t even run a bus system. How is it going to run a subway? I also hope the Taxicab Authority doesn’t get involved with this, although the best thing about the subway, if it gets approved and built, is that it will put the authority out of business once and for all.

Are we really ready for another subsidized mass transit failure in Southern Nevada? If you think the tunneling efforts for the latest straw at Lake Mead were expensive, wait for the final costs on this one. It will have to be deep to get under all the existing utilities, probably 25-plus feet. There is a lot of groundwater the entire length of this proposed project, especially around the Strip and Spring Mountain Road.

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just turn the Strip into a mall like Fremont Street, sans the freaks?