| C O O L V E G A S M A P . C O M | Las Vegas Transportation Map |
Considering the sheer number of visitors, its ever growing population, the needs of this dynamic city to move goods, supplies and keep service vehicles feeding the giant casino resorts, it's remarkable that Las Vegas doesn't experience more grid lock than it does. The key to getting around it knowing what streets and intersections not to use. Practically each of the giant casinos can be accessed by roads that run parallel to the Las Vegas Strip. If you look at a map of the Las Vegas strip, you can see that Koval Lane and Paradise Rd. running on the east side and Industrial Rd. on the west all provide quicker access to the strip cross street.
What is remarkable for a fast growing "sun belt" city is that it is so easy to get around to so many attractions once a visitor is on the strip. As long as you allow ourself enough time, most south and central strip and some north strip casinos are convenient to quite a bit businesses and attractions. With a little planning and learning where to get a bus or taxi, visitors quickly learn how to manage. The one thing you don't hear of is visitors getting lost. The landmarks on the strip are unique and the sense of direction is always provided by so many easy to remember visual reference points.
In fact, for first time visitors, a rental car is probably not recommended. Only repeat visitors probably want to venture away from the strip since there is just so much to see on the strip. The much tooted Las Vegas monorail has so for been quite a disappointment to most of its boosters. The monorail only serves part of the east side of the strip and its stations are located quite a distance to the back of many of the casino resorts. A good start would be the best way to put it. The fares have gotten rather expensive and many Las Vegas have written it off. But with the density of the strip and surrounding areas in Las Vegas only set to grow even more, the construction of addional casino towers, the multi-billion dollar City Center and Echelon Place, as well as the fact that Harmon Corridor with its W resort is crossed by the monorail, the future looks like their is a place for this private run but critical people mover. More importantly, a proposed extension to the McCarrin airport is believed to have great potential since the southern terminus of the monorail is only a few miles from the airport and the monorail would be an excellent way to transport the expected tens of thousands of convention goers to the Las Vegas Hilton.
Less promising are proposals to extend the monorail around to the western side of the Las Vegas Strip. While the sheer numbers of visitors is large at each resort, the long distances just to the back of the hotels demonstrates how the Las Vegas density is still not quite what is seen in the big cities of New York and Chicago. Automobiles will always be the primary method of transportation for some time to come.
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