Talk:Las Vegas Monorail

Curtis Myles
Re:
 * "Curtis Myles, an African-American and a former deputy general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada...."

Surely what qualifies him to be president is that he is a former deputy general manager, and not that he is African-American. Why is his race relevant here? It's something you'd put in the article on him, but I think it should be left out here. Ground Zero | t 21:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I was thinking the same thing. Race is not generally encylopedic.  Vegaswikian 22:25, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

He is the only African-American leader of a monorail system, and hence that is noteworthy - also, in Las Vegas, there is a disproportionately low percentage of African-Americans in positions of power, but luckily this is (albeit, unfortunately slowly) changing. --Frank Lofaro Jr. 21:44, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Then he should have an article if his accomplishments are notable. Vegaswikian 23:08, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Is it true I don’t know if it’s true 2601:206:8200:AE20:CC0D:DC4B:3C7C:3648 (talk) 06:02, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Inaugeration
1958? Is that the correct date?--Rotten 16:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Ticket prices
Something is wrong, $8 for 24 hour pass, $40 for a 3 day pass?24.158.102.77 18:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The regular price for the 1-day pass is $15. It seems they didn't bother to discount the 3-day pass. --Traal 15:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Why did someone remove the prices? That seems like a bad idea as people (including myself) come to this page for that information. Poolboy8 21:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Omg 2601:206:8200:AE20:CC0D:DC4B:3C7C:3648 (talk) 06:01, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Can locals get a better deal on a 30 day pass? If not, why not?

Logo?
Do we want to add the logo to this page for identification purposes? I have created a high quality SVG if needed. --Tvwade (talk) 19:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, but the template should be modified to place the logo at the top of the infobox. This is done for other infoboxes as you know, like the one for casinos.  Vegaswikian (talk) 20:09, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Stations
Would it be appropriate to include some of the proposed stations such as the Thomas & Mack and the McCarren Airport? Locopingvin (talk) 15:46, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Phase 2 mention
I have restored the previous Extensions section culled by User:lvmonorail, which completely dropped the mention of Phase 2 (a dropped proposal to go towards the centre of Las Vegas) and renamed Phase 3 (to the airport) to Phase 2. This section was marked as requiring updates, and this was an update, but in a way that removed the previous history of attempts at extension and which adjusted the naming scheme away from previously located references. Some of the updates were useful, some (such as the details of the advertising contract termination) appear to be sanitising. Could other edits please review these two edits and check that nothing useful has been lost (either before, or after).

Note that I screwed up the partial revert the first time and rollbacked myself. —Sladen (talk) 03:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I will update the extension information to include the previous plan to extend the system to Downtown Las Vegas and the current plan to extend the system to McCarran International Airport, along with a citation stating that this is fact.
 * Any other edits made will be for the purposes of accuracy, validity, and objectivity of the information provided.
 * --Lvmonorail (talk) 00:13, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Why not start at the beginning?
"After many delays, the finished Las Vegas Monorail opened to the public on July 15, 2004"

Considering that the monorail is so far a financial disaster for Las Vegas, can't someone do the newspaper research that will tell us about the planning of this fiasco?

How much debt did the first proposal involve?

How did a FOUR MILE light rail system create $700 million in debt?

If I'm not mistaken, all investment in the system, aside from a few percent held by the most privileged investors, was wiped out by the bankruptcy that lasted from January 2010 to May 2012. The how & the why of that seem particularly relevant.

Without such details this is a terrible, terrible article. Bustter (talk) 03:58, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello Bustter; it's been a while since I did some research for this article, and it sounds like the bankruptcy has happened in the meantime. We need reliable citation sources to work from, so if you can dig up reference material that covers the empty areas, we can add it to the article.  (It's also Wiki, so you can add it yourself; just make sure new statements are sourced per WP:CITE and WP:RS).  Thank you for getting involved! —Sladen (talk) 04:52, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Initial plan, December 1996
To start: An archive search of the LV Review-Journal reveals a very different plan introduced in 1996: Date: December 13, 1996 Author: Deborah Robiglio Section: Page: Words: 626 LV riding into the future A proposed $ 2.2 billion transportation system would include a monorail and increased bus service. By Deborah Robiglio Review-Journal Map, color. PROPOSED MONORAIL ROUTE Details of a $ 2.2 billion plan to build an 18-mile elevated monorail encircling the Strip were revealed Thursday with the expectation that final approval for the project will come in January. The rail, which would link McCarran International Airport with a main trunk line northeast along Las Vegas... [the rest is paywalled] Bustter (talk) 04:12, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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Merge articles on the individual stations
There are 8 separate articles for the individual stations of the monorail. I would propose to merge all of these articles to here. They consist almost entirely of information that violates "Wikipedia is not a travel guide": lists of nearby hotels and attractions, and instructions to get to the stations. What little encyclopedic information is in these articles could easily be presented in a table in this article. I don't think the individual stations meet WP:GNG - there are very few substantial reliable sources that discuss any one of the stations as a distinct topic. And the WP:STATION notability essay supports this idea, for example, "Where only basic information about related stations exist, considering presenting it as a table within a relevant article, rather than creating articles for each station." Toohool (talk) 18:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Useddenim (talk) 21:55, 18 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Move that content to Wikivoyage. If there's anything useful left, keep them. If there isn't, merge to an expanded list.  I can see justfification for a sentence description on each, and a photo.  Other than that, they're all pretty similar, were all opened together, and anything on the system is best handled in one place.
 * I'd keep Mandalay Bay though. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:14, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Why keep the Mandalay Bay station article? It seems to me that the proposed extension of the line to Mandalay Bay is relevant to the whole system, and whatever usable content there is on that topic should be in this article (and it already is, for the most part). Toohool (talk) 18:40, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

- Alterations to all station articles have occured, with these eight edits in <2 minutes: These eight have the duplicated edit summay "merged to Las Vegas Monorail", and replace the conents with " , is there a plan for the merging to occur?  —Sladen (talk) 23:31, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Special:Diff/858542734 (SLS station)
 * Special:Diff/858542762 (Westgate station (Las Vegas Monorail))
 * Special:Diff/858542776 (Convention Center station (Las Vegas Monorail))
 * Special:Diff/858542804 (Harrah's & The Linq station)
 * Special:Diff/858542818 (Flamingo & Caesars Palace station)
 * Special:Diff/858542840 (Bally's & Paris station)
 * Special:Diff/858542858 (MGM Grand station)
 * Special:Diff/858542875 (Mandalay Bay station)
 * I merged all the content that's usable in my view. Is there some more content from the station articles that you think should be preserved? Toohool (talk) 23:35, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Bankruptcy Sale 2020 Q4
Conrad T. Pino (talk) 14:52, 23 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't somewhere in the bankruptcy info be something about how the first bankruptcy effort was to take Chapter 9, only to have the courts rule that the monorail was private, not municipal, property and hence didn't qualify for Chapter 9?2600:1004:B140:7F52:C02E:836D:6A5F:707D (talk) 01:10, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Airport name
I added back in the McCarran Field name to the airport under the Phase 2 discussion. In 2010 when the announcement was made, that was the airport's name. It was only just renamed in November 2021 so it's more correct to use the original name and then add "now Harry Reid International Airport" as I have done here. 23skidoo (talk) 22:15, 3 February 2022 (UTC)