[Bruff]

It's the biggest source of pollution - both air and noise - in the Valley.
It's a perfect storm opportunity for terrorists.
It's overdue and begging for 'a big one'.
It's holding up what could be billions in new development.
It's nearing capacity.
Best of all, we've got a replacement site, bought and paid, for just 30 miles and 10 minutes away (by high speed rail).
I say that relocating McCarran should be a top priority.

[BBMW]

I sort of agree, but for different reasons. But it isn't going to happen.

And even if there was enough support to come up with the $XX,000,000,000 to pay for it it would be a 10+ year project.

[Bruff]

Originally Posted by BBMW

I sort of agree, but for different reasons. But it isn't going to happen.
And even if there was enough support to come up with the $XX,000,000,000 to pay for it it would be a 10+ year project.

It will happen, because
Money. What do you think the existing site would be worth on the open market? Billions more than it will cost for the new one. Money talks, bullspit flies (out of McCarran).
Capacity. Airports have a finite capacity, which McCarran is rapidly approaching.
Time. OK, say it is a 10-plus year project. That means if we start now, we can have a new airport 5 years after the old one will have run out of capacity. And 6 years after a jumbo jet takes out the new stadium some people foolishly built at the end of a runway.
Oh, right. Someone here is bound to tell us that the taxi companies will never let it happen. Except that with a trip now running 35 miles, you have a chance to make a lot more money than the piddly 5 miles of the trip now. No one loses.
Win-win-win-win.

[Buzz123]

"No" to your original question.

[jfkIII]

Bruff might be right about the capacity thing. I rode The High Roller 3 weeks ago on a Sunday night. What stuck me most, as I approached the peak, was that there were two separate flight paths that planes were using to land...and it was plane after plane after plane, for as far as the eye could see. And this was a Sunday night at approximately 10pm! I work at a much smaller airport, and was stunned by the amount of air traffic in LV. I can just imagine what it must be like at peak travel times, and how capacity must be pushed to its limits. I imagine they would need a bigger airport (or secondary one) to handle the air traffic, if it keeps increasing.

[ScoopLV]

Nothing will happen until plane crashes. Only then will Las Vegans realize that there's a reason why most decent cities keep their airport in the hinterlands.

This city isn't smart enough to act proactively.

And don't get me wrong -- I love the fact I can be at the airport from my front door in 15 minutes, and at the gate in 25. (I have a TSA "get out of lines" card.) But all it takes is one major malfunction.

[ecam222]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Nothing will happen until plane crashes. Only then will Las Vegans realize that there's a reason why most decent cities keep their airport in the hinterlands.

This city isn't smart enough to act proactively.

And don't get me wrong -- I love the fact I can be at the airport from my front door in 15 minutes, and at the gate in 25. (I have a TSA "get out of lines" card.) But all it takes is one major malfunction.

Especially with the Wigner Effect...Fukushima, remember?

[lvoc]

Now there is a really stupid idea. Well up into the brain dead class. Of all the things Las Vegas does not need to do closing McCarran has got to be number one by miles.

Even if we open an outlying Airport as McCarran reaches capacity we still need to keep the key flights to the inner airport.

This is so dumb it is really difficult to believe that any can be believe that such a stupid move makes any sense.

The issue is to integrate the airport further into the city and the strip. Get people through it and to their room in half an hour.

And, if and when we do get an outlying airport, we fly the people to McCarran to get them into the system.

And there are hundreds of acres to be developed before it would make any sense to think about McCarran...north strip will take care of the next 25 years.

[Willy702]

Haha sure it will. Someone will announce the plan, some public funding will be needed and 100,000 seniors will protest spending their tax dollars on something they don't really use. That would be so Vegas.

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by Willy702

Haha sure it will. Someone will announce the plan, some public funding will be needed and 100,000 seniors will protest spending their tax dollars on something they don't really use. That would be so Vegas.

That is the domed stadium...which we do need. For the same reason we need McCarran...it feeds the factory that drives the local economy.