Las Vegas: A Surprising Leader In Public Transit

30 December 2002 - 9:00am

Las Vegas will soon launch the nation's first monorail built as a public transit project and funded by private industry.

"So many passengers pay their $2 fares to ride public buses round-the-clock on the congested Strip that the bus route turns a profit -- perhaps the only major transit line in the nation to do so... If that's not unusual enough, Las Vegas plans to become the first U.S. city to operate European buses that steer themselves. They're expected to hit the road next summer."

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle, December 27, 2002
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