What's The Next Ban? Will Clark County Commissioners Ban Bicycles On The Strip?

 

Only four months ago, the Clark County commissioners banned electric bicycles and e-scooters from the Strip Corridor, which includes Las Vegas Boulevard. The county had already banned those upright Segway "Mall Cop" scooters and pedicabs, the giant trikes pedaled by a worker giving people a ride.

What's next? Bicycles?

The Las Vegas/Clark County area ranks very low for its bicycle networks, which consists of mostly a paved trail along a highway or bits and pieces of trails here and there with no bicycle trail continuity.

The RTC folks are supposed to be pushing bicycling as a way for locals to get around and they are very nice people. But these polite RTC staffers are too timid to take on the county commissioners, who are serve as the policy rubberstampers for the corporate hotel owners of the Strip such as MGM Resorts Interational and Caesars Entertainment.

The Strip is a public road. Las Vegas Boulevard, again, is PUBLIC.

But the county commissioners allow the hotel-casino property owners to use the road as their PRIVATE street, where alternative modes of transportation are banned.

Las Vegas needs to grow up and be a real big-league city, one that embraces all forms of mobility.

I bike on the Strip and you can see what it's like to bike the Strip here.

 

Just another day in a town with a one-trick pony economy where the hotel owners tell the county commissioners what to do and you can't even have basic public services like buses or a monorail shuttling visitors from the airport to the Strip and back.

Funny thing about this town called Las Vegas. It's run like a small village by a handful of people with the private interests of the hotels eclipsing the public service needs of the public locals.