In a speech on Thursday to the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association, Steve Hill, CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, touched on plans that the LVCVA, which owns the Las Vegas Monorail, has for the elevated transportation system. It was the first time we’ve heard that the tourism authority plans to incorporate the Monorail into the growing Las Vegas Loop subterranean transportation system. “The Vegas Loop makes a huge difference whether youre using it or not in taking people off the streets, Hill said. It will incorporate the Monorail. Well take the track off, put a pre-cast two-lane road on top, incorporate it into the Boring Company system, and use the existing Monorail stations. When you get to the MGM station, well tie it into the parking garage and use it as part of a station with ramps to get in and out of it. In other words, the Monorail’s guideway will be an aboveground extension of the underground Loop on the east side of the Strip between the Sahara and MGM Grand — without the onus of having to dig a four-mile-long tunnel behind the hotel-casinos.
Source: Las Vegas News