Transit
Boring Co. wants Vegas Loop expansion
The Boring Co., already permitted to construct a labyrinth of tunnels beneath Southern Nevada, is asking the City of Las Vegas to approve an expansion to the Vegas Loop before it’s opened a single tunnel within city limits. TBC has encountered obstacles in other municipalities where it offered burrowed, autonomous vehicles as an alternative to […]
County OK’s vision of tunnels filled with Teslas
It’s still more of a tunnel vision than anything. The Boring Company on Wednesday received approval from the Clark County Commission to extend its Vegas Loop tunnel system by 25 miles. That is in addition to the nearly 30 miles in proposed tunnels already approved by the county in 2021 but not yet developed. “The […]
Electrification plan leaves low-income Nevadans behind
The Nevada Public Utilities Commission’s recent decision on funding for NV Energy’s Transportation Electrification Plan (TEP) is a significant blow to equity and environmental justice in the state. The state legislature requires NV Energy, the state’s largest electric utility, to outline how it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. For this plan, […]
Assemblyman: Companies still illegally towing poor people’s cars, despite 2021 law
Nevada lawmakers two years ago made it illegal for towing companies to remove cars from apartment complexes and homeowners association neighborhoods solely for having expired registration. But Assemblyman C.H. Miller (D-North Las Vegas) says it is still happening, especially to people in low-income communities. So he is back in the current legislative session with what […]
States to receive $2.5B from feds for electric vehicle charging infrastructure
The federal government will send $2.5 billion over the next five years to states, local governments and tribes to build electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Biden administration officials said Tuesday. The new Charging and Fueling Infrastructure grant program, which was authorized by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, will spend $2.5 billion over five years to build […]
Railroad workers warned us: Greed is dangerous
The toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio this February are a chilling metaphor for the toxic greed that has infected so many of our big corporations. After having to evacuate, residents of East Palestine, Ohio are cautiously going back home, but they still don’t know the full extent of […]
SNHD publishes plan with ‘realistic timelines for improving public health’
The Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) has released a plan to address chronic diseases and other public health priorities for Clark County in the next three to five years. The process of developing the Southern Nevada Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) started in Oct. 2021. Government agencies, including the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Southern […]
Tired of high housing prices and nightmare traffic? Little-known unelected boards hold the key.
There is a little secret that Nevada developers and road contractors are using to boost profits at the expense of taxpayers, drivers, prospective home buyers, and the environment, all while fomenting the scourge of high housing prices and traffic problems that plague us. These problems are arguably the most important issues of our time and […]
Will Detroit remain the U.S. auto industry’s center amid the switch to EVs?
Nearly seven years ago, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said she had “no doubt that the auto industry will change more in the next five to 10 years than it has in the past 50 years.” She was prescient, to say the least. About the only thing that hasn’t changed is Barra, who still runs […]
Citizen scientists, Latino residents to track air quality in East Las Vegas
Study after study shows an important and often overlooked need in Latino communities: cleaner air. Air pollution is one of the most prevalent environmental health risks in the United States, but is disproportionately inhaled by Latino Americans. Now a community-led project in Southern Nevada is betting local Latino households and vendors can develop community-driven solutions […]
Deaths and injuries in road crashes are a ‘silent epidemic on wheels’
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated mind-numbing statistics over the past two years: half a billion cases, 6 million deaths, 1 million in the U.S. alone. But another, less-publicized global scourge preceded it and is likely to outlast it: traffic deaths and injuries. Around 1.35 million people die each year on the world’s roads, and another […]
CDC concludes a mask mandate is still needed for travelers, clearing way for court battle
The Biden administration will fight a court decision for the authority to mandate masks on airplanes, trains and other public transit, following a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation Wednesday night that a mandate was still needed. The CDC said in a statement that the mandate keeps transportation safer for immunocompromised people and the greater public. […]