Interstate 11

[Rover_0]

FWIW, a Sparks-based newspaper mentions I-11 and the possibility of Reno, bad grammar and all:

http://dailysparkstribune.com/view/full_story/23208379/article-Future-interstate-study-potentially-worth--billions-

[Alps]

FWIW, a Sparks-based newspaper mentions I-11 and the possibility of Reno, bad grammar and all:

http://dailysparkstribune.com/view/full_story/23208379/article-Future-interstate-study-potentially-worth--billions-

STOP BEING ON TOPIC

[Revive 755]

FWIW, a Sparks-based newspaper mentions I-11 and the possibility of Reno, bad grammar and all:

http://dailysparkstribune.com/view/full_story/23208379/article-Future-interstate-study-potentially-worth--billions-

First time I've heard of any I-11 routing option connecting to I-5 (second paragraph).

[Brandon]

FWIW, a Sparks-based newspaper mentions I-11 and the possibility of Reno, bad grammar and all:

http://dailysparkstribune.com/view/full_story/23208379/article-Future-interstate-study-potentially-worth--billions-

STOP BEING ON TOPIC

STOP MAKING SENSE! 

[Rover_0]

Bumping the thread with an article out of Las Vegas:

New Interstate could be Beneficial, but Costly

[Brandon]

Bumping the thread with an article out of Las Vegas:

New Interstate could be Beneficial, but Costly

Why not use tolls on it in a classic Vegas fashion?  Keep puting quarters in until the wheel hits all 7s and the gate goes up.

[myosh_tino]

Bumping the thread with an article out of Las Vegas:

New Interstate could be Beneficial, but Costly

Why not use tolls on it in a classic Vegas fashion?  Keep puting quarters in until the wheel hits all 7s and the gate goes up.

(Most) Vegas machines don't accept quarters anymore.

You gotta insert $20, get 80 credits and spin until you get the 7's.  Any remaining credits will be paid via a Cash Out coupon that needs to be redeemed at the nearest casino (or inserted into a real slot machine for continued enjoyment). 

[Alps]

Bumping the thread with an article out of Las Vegas:

New Interstate could be Beneficial, but Costly

Why not use tolls on it in a classic Vegas fashion?  Keep puting quarters in until the wheel hits all 7s and the gate goes up.

Oh man, how about your toll is anywhere between $1 and $3 depending on where the little roulette ball falls?

[Scott5114]

Bumping the thread with an article out of Las Vegas:

New Interstate could be Beneficial, but Costly

Why not use tolls on it in a classic Vegas fashion?  Keep puting quarters in until the wheel hits all 7s and the gate goes up.

The slot attendant in me feels compelled to point out that they are called reels.

Why not do video poker instead? If you make a hand, your toll is discounted. A royal flush means free tolls for a year!

[roadfro]

^ This might be a fun way to get around the state law forbidding tolled highways...

Actually, the Boulder City Bypass segment of proposed I-11 was supposed to be the first demonstration project in the state that would allow active tolling of roads--I'm not sure where the legislature went with that bill...  I seem to remember reading about a feasibility study that revealed that tolls on the bypass would not bring in the expected revenue needed to construct under that plan. I'm assuming that's why this article talks about raising gas taxes in Clark County and other means to fund the project.

[Brandon]

^^ Screw raising gas taxes.  Just build rest areas that include slots and video poker and use that revenue for building and maintaining the roads.  Since they're gambling devices and fully legal in Nevada, they are not concessions and not a commercialization if owned by the state DOT. 

[elsmere241]

^^ Screw raising gas taxes.  Just build rest areas that include slots and video poker and use that revenue for building and maintaining the roads.  Since they're gambling devices and fully legal in Nevada, they are not concessions and not a commercialization if owned by the state DOT. 

As long as they don't do that in Boulder City proper - gambling is banned there.

[Thing 342]

^^ Screw raising gas taxes.  Just build rest areas that include slots and video poker and use that revenue for building and maintaining the roads.  Since they're gambling devices and fully legal in Nevada, they are not concessions and not a commercialization if owned by the state DOT. 

Actually not too far-fetched, as they have slots at the airport in Vegas.

[Brandon]

^^ Screw raising gas taxes.  Just build rest areas that include slots and video poker and use that revenue for building and maintaining the roads.  Since they're gambling devices and fully legal in Nevada, they are not concessions and not a commercialization if owned by the state DOT. 

Actually not too far-fetched, as they have slots at the airport in Vegas.

I'm very well of aware of them.  They're everywhere in McCarron International Airport.  Can't walk more than 20 feet before you run into one of them.  It's where I got the idea for rest areas with slots and video poker. 

[triplemultiplex]

"Yeah well, I'll just go build my own rest area... with slot machines! and hookers!  You know what, screw the rest area!"

[Rover_0]

"Yeah well, I'll just go build my own rest area... with slot machines! and hookers!  You know what, screw the rest area!"

Ha! I thought you had your own plan for Interstate 11, but that's pretty funny.

[Scott5114]

What, no blackjack?

[Rover_0]

I'm surprised that this hasn't been mentioned yet...

Possible I-11 Routes through Las Vegas (circa October 2013)

So, I-515 may not be replaced by I-11, as I-11 will hitch a ride on future I-215, or I-11 may run along US-95 or US-93 north of the city.

I'll be absolutely shocked if I-11 follows US-93 through eastern Nevada, even if it takes 50 years.

[NE2]

The article doesn't say anything about it using US 93 (except for the BS "starting at the Mexican border and continuing all the way to Canada"), and the map simply shows it uselessly overlapping I-15 to end at the US 93 split.

Would AASHTO/FHWA approve an endpoint on US 95 northwest of Vegas? This doesn't seem like a "logical terminus" for a 2DI.

PS: lol Agenda 21

[kinupanda]

I'm surprised that this hasn't been mentioned yet...

Possible I-11 Routes through Las Vegas (circa October 2013)

"One man, Dick Bonar, was adamant that the new route should not come through the center of town."

[Rover_0]

The article doesn't say anything about it using US 93 (except for the BS "starting at the Mexican border and continuing all the way to Canada"), and the map simply shows it uselessly overlapping I-15 to end at the US 93 split.

Would AASHTO/FHWA approve an endpoint on US 95 northwest of Vegas? This doesn't seem like a "logical terminus" for a 2DI.

PS: lol Agenda 21

I don't see anywhere where it doesn't mention just ending anywhere. While I-11 north(west) of Las Vegas doesn't seem likely for a long time, this seems to imply that I-11's going northward out of Las Vegas is being given serious consideration.

[NE2]

I don't see anywhere where it does mention continuing across the middle of nowhere, other than the BS about continuing to Canada (which is probably talking about the Canamex Corridor using I-15 to Montana).

[english si]

If you are building an eastern loop, just do something like this and have I-11 on the east side and I-215 on the other three sides.

It makes no sense to cross I-15 to merely end at the far side of the Vegas urban area. Nor does it make sense to hit I-15 to the south of the city, as it is a N-S route's northern end. Either serve the city by taking over I-515, or take a freeway bypassing the city to the east.

If you do eventually build a US95 freeway beyond Vegas far enough to be an interstate, then I-11 can cross I-15. It makes sense, given there's a more direct freeway than round the loop, to relocate I-11 through Vegas if it took the eastern belt.

[nexus73]

Run I-11 to I-15 along the current I-515/US 95.  Loop all of Vegas and call it I-711...LOL!  Terminate I-11 at the US 95 end of the loop.

Yeah, I know I broke an Interstate numbering convention but it's all in the name of lucky numbers :-)

Rick

[Molandfreak]

Stupid convention anyway. There NEEDS to be an I-711. It's bad enough that we got doofed on I-420 and I-666.