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Las Vegas Monorail

Las Vegas Monorail
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A monorail train arriving at the Sahara Station
Overview
Type Straddle beam monorail
System Alweg (inflated rubber tires on concrete guideway)
Locale Las Vegas Strip, Nevada
Termini SLS
MGM Grand
Stations 7
Daily ridership 13,510 (2011)
Website www.lvmonorail.com
Operation
Opened 1995 (free trial service between Bally's and MGM Grand)
July 15, 2004 (full revenue service)
Closed 2002 to 2004 (due to construction)
Owner Las Vegas Monorail Company
Operator(s) Las Vegas Monorail Company
Character Elevated (two future underground stations)
Rolling stock 9 Bombardier Innovia Monorail 200 trains
Technical
Line length 3.9 mi (6.3 km)
Number of tracks 2
Minimum radius < 60 m (200 ft)
Electrification 750 V DC third rail
Operating speed 50 mph (80 km/h)
Highest elevation 60 ft (18 m)
Route map
Depot
0:00 SLS
2:00 Westgate
4:00 Las Vegas Convention Center
8:30 Harrah's / The Linq
9:30
Flamingo/Caesars Palace
(Originally Bally's—MGM Grand)
11:00 Bally's / Paris Las Vegas
13:00 MGM Grand

Times are scheduled minutes from SLS.


Times are scheduled minutes from SLS.

The Las Vegas Monorail is a 3.9-mile (6.3 km) monorail mass transit system located adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It connects several large casinos in the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester, and does not enter the City of Las Vegas. It is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Monorail Company. In 2013, total annual ridership was roughly 4.2 million, down from a pre-Great Recession peak of 7.9 million in 2007. The monorail is a registered not-for-profit corporation, allowed under Nevada law since the monorail provides a public service. The State of Nevada assisted in bond financing, but no public money was used in construction.

The Las Vegas Monorail project was built by Bombardier Transportation upon an existing free monorail that ran between the MGM Grand and Bally's, closing a long gap in the Strip that tourists usually had to travel on foot.

During testing and commissioning, the monorail suffered several malfunctions that delayed the start of passenger service for almost a year. The most serious of these problems related to parts falling from the monorail to the ground under the tracks. After many delays, the finished Las Vegas Monorail opened to the public on July 15, 2004 with the completion and testing of "Phase 1."

On September 8, 2004, more problems with falling parts led to the closing of the monorail for nearly four months. It reopened on December 24, 2004. A number of repairs were made to the monorail cars during this shutdown. Each time the monorail system required major engineering changes, it underwent a lengthy "commissioning" process to confirm the effectiveness and safety of the repairs. Officials reported that each day the monorail was down cost the system approximately $85,000 in lost fares.


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