Las Vegas: Another proposal to reduce northbound airport exit congestion

[mrsman]

It is interesting that there is planned only a one-way intechange, westbound is grade separated, but eastbound is at grade. 

Given the traffic here, it is certainly good to have something like this to avoid grade crossings btwn Tropicana and Paradise / University Center.  Cross traffic routings, like what we have on Desert Inn, is needed to keep traffic moving.

[Scott5114]

Perks for one direction of travel but not the other isn't unheard of in the Las Vegas valley—see the eastbound bypass lanes on Cheyenne west of Rampart, for instance.

Desert Inn is a cool idea but it's entirely ruined by the light at Paradise Road. It's kind of a crapshoot whether DI is actually faster than just slogging across LVB at-grade on Flamingo.

Most locals still call University Center by its original name, Swenson Street. It was renamed because someone did a deep dive into history and nobody could figure out who Swenson was or if anyone even actually existed by that name at all. That and the intersection of Twain and Swenson is a notoriously bad part of town, so other places along Swenson didn't want to be associated with it.