[olecapt]

Your 35 minutes corresponds to my 20 minutes. Your reasonable worse case would be an hour...

Nellis is not a rational commute from GV.

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Originally Posted by MilitaryFamilyUSAF

Thank you all for the input. In my research and talking with others who have lived down there I have found out and found it quite odd that the closer to the base you get the more unhealthy the neighborhood is. Keesler in Mississippi was similiar. But everywhere else I've seen has been totally oppisite.

I was stationed at Keesler in 1976 and it was bad back then. I even lived (rented) in one of the trailer parks off Pass Rd, that's all an E-2 could afford. Then I was stationed at England AFB, LA (now closed due to BRAC) and it was the same there, seedy bars and trailer park city near the base.

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Your 35 minutes corresponds to my 20 minutes. Your reasonable worse case would be an hour...

Nellis is not a rational commute from GV.

I've been doing it for 16 years. Unless there's an accident on the freeway or Nellis Blvd is down to one lane, 35 minutes is all it takes. It has never taken me an hour to get home from work. I work with people that live in the area north of Craig Rd and many times it takes them longer to get home than I do.

[olecapt]

I will agree there are no ten minute commuters...cause it takes longer than that to do the last little bit. But nope anyplace from Decatur east on the north side can make it in 20 minutes or so. I have worked it in some depth with a couple of folk who had time limits for reporting.

You are also a very lucky man. I have spent more than an hour a couple of times trapped between exits on 95 and on 215.

[Buzz123]

Just adding my two cents, not tryng to prove the military guy wrong, but the area around Kirkland AFB in the Duke City is pretty seedy too.

Ah, yes. The good old days of getting anywhere in the city in ten minutes went the way of all the emploded hotels.

Military guy, by now you must realize that we will all be very disappointed in you if you don't decide to live north of Craig Rd., and west of MLK/Camino al Norte.

Actually, I'd go west of US 95 and take the commute in stride.

Until five years ago I lived at Decatur and Lone Mountain right next door to an F-15e jockey. I never heard him complain about the commute. It was a nice neighborhood and it took me about 20 minutes to get to the State office I worked at for a while on LV Blvd North near Cheyenne and Pecos. That's not too far from Nellis.

[lvkewlkid]

It's never taken us less than 45 minutes to get from I 215 and Green Valley Parkway to I 15 and Craig, so I would imagine it even more to the base, plus with gas prices, do you really want to spend all that on such mileage instead of using that money for other things...

[Buzz123]

You wouldn't go that way to get to the base, that's too far out of the way. You'd just take US 95 to Flamingo and go down Nellis Blvd next to Sam's Town. It wouldn't be a bad commute from Green Valley to Nellis. Using the freeways is crazy. You can get around town a lot faster on surface streets.

[PinkString]

But in Aliante, they can hop on the 215 east, and be there relatively fast.
Or go to El Dorado and go to Craig and continue til it turns into the base.
MilitaryFamily, both of these communities are good bets. They aren't towns, they are both in the upper North Valley, not to be confused with the old area of N Las Vegas.

Even a little farther west on Lone Mountain, Washburn, or Ann are still good bets, since you can still hop on the 215 east or take Craig to the base. it just adds an insignificant extra 5 or 10 mins to the commute.

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Originally Posted by lvkewlkid

It's never taken us less than 45 minutes to get from I 215 and Green Valley Parkway to I 15 and Craig, so I would imagine it even more to the base, plus with gas prices, do you really want to spend all that on such mileage instead of using that money for other things...

So you're the one that does 35mph on the freeeway LOL!!! Or the only time you get in I-15N is at 3:00pm on a Friday before a three day weekend when 1/2 of So. Cal is arriving in Vegas for the long weekend.

I just got back from a ride up to Utah and on the way home I stopped at the gas station at I-15 and Craig, from there it took me about 20-25 minutes to get home, exited the freeway at GV Pkwy and I-215. I was cruising in the #1 lane at 75 mph, yeah I know that is 10 over, but Metro ain't looking for 10 overs, they want more action than that.

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

You wouldn't go that way to get to the base, that's too far out of the way. You'd just take US 95 to Flamingo and go down Nellis Blvd next to Sam's Town. It wouldn't be a bad commute from Green Valley to Nellis. Using the freeways is crazy. You can get around town a lot faster on surface streets.

The route I take to work is I get on I-215 at Valley Verde and take it to 93/95N (I-515) and take it to Charleston. Get off at Charleston and go to Lamb and take a left on Lamb up to Cheyene, take Cheyene to Nellis, left on Nellis up to the base. That route has never taken me more than 35 minutes. In the morning when traffic is light I can go Valle Verde to Sunset, then Sunset to Russell, Russell to Nellis, now that the Nellis overpass is completed, and Nellis straight up to the base. Only in light traffic can I get to work in 35 minutes going that way. Coming home the traffic on Nellis is terrible and it takes 40-45 minutes to get home, that's why I use the freeway both ways, it's 35 minutes either way.