NV 604 (The Las Vegas Strip)
Thomas Smith
the state of Nevada was going to decommission this highway, but I read an
article in the Las Vegas Review Journal where someone asked, after seeing a
truck turn onto the highway by Caesar's Palace or the Convention Center
(somewhere in that stretch), if the highway was closed to trucks. The
reporter seemed to indicate that it was still a state maintained highway
since he said that it was very unusual for trucks to be banned from state
highways, but they were from this stretch except for making deliveries.
--
Tom Smith
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Steve
> What is the status of Las Vegas Blvd. (aka NV 604)? I read somewhere that
> the state of Nevada was going to decommission this highway, but I read an
> article in the Las Vegas Review Journal where someone asked, after seeing a
> truck turn onto the highway by Caesar's Palace or the Convention Center
> (somewhere in that stretch), if the highway was closed to trucks. The
> reporter seemed to indicate that it was still a state maintained highway
> since he said that it was very unusual for trucks to be banned from state
> highways, but they were from this stretch except for making deliveries.
>
Reporters don't always know everything. The road, if not already
decommissioned, has been legislated into decommission.
--
Steve Alpert
GO YANKEES!
Civil Engineering (Course 1) at MIT
Mr. Mojave
<GRW1b.111558$0v4.7...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"Thomas Smith" <thomas....@worldnet.att.net-NO-SPAM> wrote:
> What is the status of Las Vegas Blvd. (aka NV 604)? I read somewhere that
> the state of Nevada was going to decommission this highway, but I read an
> article in the Las Vegas Review Journal where someone asked, after seeing a
> truck turn onto the highway by Caesar's Palace or the Convention Center
> (somewhere in that stretch), if the highway was closed to trucks. The
> reporter seemed to indicate that it was still a state maintained highway
> since he said that it was very unusual for trucks to be banned from state
> highways, but they were from this stretch except for making deliveries.
You have a link to that article? I'm friends with their transport
reporter over there and would like to see that reference. But... as far
as I know...
1) NV 604 is designated for decommission in the next few years
2) Trucks are not allowed on it unless they are making deliveries to the
casinos.
Thomas Smith
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Jul-09-Wed-2003/news/21688741.html
The section in question (the second item in the article) reads as follows:
BEGIN QUOTE
. Jess Carlos asks: About a week ago mid-morning, I saw a long flatbed truck
maneuvering on Las Vegas Boulevard, between Circus Circus Drive and Sahara
Avenue, blocking the street. A fortnight ago at about 8:35 p.m., I saw an 18
wheeler running southward on Las Vegas Boulevard in the midst of heavy
traffic. I know there's a lot of construction in those areas, but can big
trucks not be restricted to side streets? Or is it anything goes with
traffic on the Strip?
Clark County restricts commercial vehicles from Las Vegas Boulevard between
Sahara and Tropicana avenues, unless it's necessary for a delivery.
"If they have deliveries, we're not prohibiting that," said Herbert Arnold,
Clark County chief of traffic engineering. "But if they can come off of
Industrial or Paradise they must do that."
The code is a rare restriction on a state route (the Strip is state Route
604), which are generally open to any roadworthy vehicle.
On city and county controlled routes, big rigs and other heavyset vehicles
are restricted to designated truck routes. Clark County has about 18 truck
routes, and Las Vegas has about a dozen.
"The intention is to try to keep the truck traffic out of the residential
areas," said Jorge Cervantes, assistant city traffic engineer.
END QUOTE
This appeared on July 9, 2003.
Tom Smith
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