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  • rainwall@piefed.socialtoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml•The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid [22:04]English
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    6 hours ago

    Nope, I was wrong entirely. I deleted my comment and added the below in. Youre dead on about vegas killing it for the loop:

    Based on the most recent article I can find with the head of the monorail system, you’re right:

    How do the Monorail and the Vegas Loop complement each other? What’s the future of the monorail? Are there plans to get another leg of that going?

    What we plan to do is run the Monorail the way it is, until we can’t anymore. What will almost certainly determine that is the trains wearing out. We’ve got nine trains, if we were going to replace them right now it would probably be a $300 million purchase, and we can’t afford to do that. Nobody else could either. Once that stops, our plan is to use the monorail structure, the stanchions, take the track off and put a two-lane road on top of the monorail and tie it into the (underground Vegas Loop) system.

    Any guesses of the Monorail lifespan?

    We keep saying eight or 10 years.

    There were some light rail conversations on and off for maybe the past decade. Would light rail help?

    Taking a lane off the Strip for light rail seems counterproductive. The properties have never supported it. And if you don’t take the traffic away, then I don’t know that light rail speeds anything up. I mean, if you’re able to run in the same lane as the train, then I don’t know (if) that does you a whole lot of good. But it’s a very expensive system to put in. One of the real benefits of (the underground system) is it’s free. The Boring Company is paying for all the tunnels, and the properties are paying for all the stations. There’s no public money going into the system.

  • rainwall@piefed.socialtoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml•The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid [22:04]English
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Based on the most recent article I can find with the head of the monorail system, you’re right:

    How do the Monorail and the Vegas Loop complement each other? What’s the future of the monorail? Are there plans to get another leg of that going?

    What we plan to do is run the Monorail the way it is, until we can’t anymore. What will almost certainly determine that is the trains wearing out. We’ve got nine trains, if we were going to replace them right now it would probably be a $300 million purchase, and we can’t afford to do that. Nobody else could either. Once that stops, our plan is to use the monorail structure, the stanchions, take the track off and put a two-lane road on top of the monorail and tie it into the (underground Vegas Loop) system.

    Any guesses of the Monorail lifespan?

    We keep saying eight or 10 years.

    There were some light rail conversations on and off for maybe the past decade. Would light rail help?

    Taking a lane off the Strip for light rail seems counterproductive. The properties have never supported it. And if you don’t take the traffic away, then I don’t know that light rail speeds anything up. I mean, if you’re able to run in the same lane as the train, then I don’t know (if) that does you a whole lot of good. But it’s a very expensive system to put in. One of the real benefits of (the underground system) is it’s free. The Boring Company is paying for all the tunnels, and the properties are paying for all the stations. There’s no public money going into the system.

  • rainwall@piefed.socialtoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml•The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid [22:04]English
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    6 hours ago

    He goes into it in the video, but the Las vegas monorail runs to many of the same locations, is cash positive, and is the 13th most used mass transit system in the US.

    The issue in Vegas is that mass transit doesn’t fit a “luxury” experience that every bit of vegas is trying to sell you to fleece your pockets. The loop, especially the “new” stops that are literally benches outside of hotels with no tunnels, don’t either, but the “private chauffeur” pitch of the Tesla tunnels at least fit the grift.

  • rainwall@piefed.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•Former New York prison guard sentenced to 15 years for beating death of inmateEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Most of the murderers were not wearing them at all. Only 3-4 of them were wearing them, and they didn’t activate them. The evidence of their cold blooded murder in the hospital was from automatic recordings.

    The Times Union first reported in December that the body cameras worn by those four correction officers were passively recording portions of the incident even though their devices had not been activated to record. Investigators were able to retrieve the video footage from those four devices because of a function on the Axon cameras — unknown to the officers — that recorded video when the devices were turned on even if they had not been activated.

    The body cameras did not catch the 2 other times they beat the victim in the ingress area and just outside of the hospital that some of the murderers later admitted to.

    What did Brooks do to piss these guys off? According to the special prosecutor, Nothing. Literally nothing:

    Our investigation further revealed that there was no provocation by Robert Brooks that would have precipitated any physical response whatsoever, never mind the physical response that was inflicted upon him,” Fitzpatrick said. “The fact of the matter is, he did absolutely nothing.”