Las Vegas Monorail Opens!

[PhiPsiRuss]

LAS VEGAS - After months of delays, Las Vegas launched a $650 million monorail Thursday that shuttles gamblers to casinos on the Strip while easing traffic along the stretch of glittering resorts.

Moments after the monorail opened to the public, a trickle of curious tourists paid the fare and boarded the sleek trains not knowing what to expect.

Their answer came quickly as the fully automated, four-car trains zoomed around the 3.9-mile, Z-shaped track, depositing them at various hotel-casino stations without any major problems.

More of this article here: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...vegas_monorail

Official site: http://LVMonorail.com/

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This is really cool. Combining ecologically responsible transportation with gambling, booze, and whores is a great idea! Why hasn't this been done before?

[tinydancer]

Woo Hoo!! I'm off to Vegas on Monday so I'll look into this. Beats the hell out of walking in the heat.

[kddani]

<---- singing the Monorail song from the Simpsons!

[Rudey]

I hope they don't let the guys with the stripper fliers on the monorail.

-Rudey
--I do hope they have hookers on the monorail

[DeltAlum]

Last time I was there, the trains were running, but there was nobody on them. Looked pretty wierd.