ROAD WARRIOR: Give thanks, if you can, for road work

29.11.09

Here, Wells Cargo, round up this feathery beast. This company is charged with widening and repaving Martin Luther King Boulevard. How complicated can this possibly be, you ask?

As previously noted, it has taken nearly as long to repair this road as it has for construction workers to establish the massive CityCenter. Crews ran into old underground utilities, and that was unexpected. Of course, we heard this from the city since the assemblage won't return calls.

Fine, these things happen. But what's with the phantom workers? What's with cones planted willy-nilly along stretches that seem unambiguously fine to drive. What's with the steel grates protruding from the roadway ready to rip the rubber right off your tires?

Here's another turkey, for the Las Vegas Monorail. Of order, we won't fire this bird from the vicinity of the airport because we don't want to interfere with air traffic, and it would a waste of time, a sure feel nostalgia for since the train doesn't go there.

I haven't hopped on the monorail-bashing brigade just yet, but I did take a ride recently. Two junior guys at the ticket kiosk summed up my opinion best: "Dude, let's just take a cab; it's cheaper."

Source: Las Vegas Review - Journal