Investing in public transit is the next step for Las Vegas

I did not buy a car upon moving back to Las Vegas. I’d sold mine shortly after moving to Seattle in June 2002, resolving to use that city’s public transportation. Returning to Vegas in May 2012, I thought, “It’s been 10 years; by now Vegas transit must be least half as good as what I’ve gotten used to in the northwest. I’ll try to go car-free here in Vegas, too.” Cue the needle-scratch noise. My car-free stint in Las Vegas, from May 2012 to December 2013, wasn’t a complete failure. I purchased monthly transit passes from the Regional Transportation Commission’s relatively new Bonneville Transit Center; its Strip-Downtown Express bus got me from Downtown Las Vegas to my job, located near Town Square, in just under an hour, with an additional 30 minutes of unshaded hoofing on sidewalks the width of a yoga mat. I rode my vintage cruiser bike on Downtown’s side streets, recently marked with bike lanes.

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