The Las Vegas Convention Center is already lining up buses on the ruins of the notorious Blue Harbor Apartments, and have started erecting a parking structure on a vacant lot that used to be one of the best places in Vegas to find toothless hookers.
Now, I don’t really know if all of this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Extra parking is always nice, but hookers without teeth vastly lowers the risk for nasty phallic scrapes.
It also forces people a few blocks further east to score crack and meth.
This is great for the cab companies, but it kind of sucks for the tourist who has to shell out an extra $5 to score a bunch of rocks for the big Superbowl party.
Sure, it sounds like I am being sarcastic, but I have had many a driver regale me with tales of driving people down Sierra Vista so that their fares could score from a rolled down window from the back seat, or told me how they lost track of the number of times they waited outside as their fares disappeared into Blue Harbor for two minutes.
I’m sure they charged more for the service. I don’t think the fares were in a position to complain to the Taxicab Authority. “Hey, Cab #1657 overcharged me when he took me to score crack!”
Looking on the bright side, there is now more parking.
It’s good to see that we are encouraging more people to take to the streets and drive here in Vegas.
I’ve been saying for years that there just isn’t enough traffic here in town, and we need to get more people into personal vehicles.
Thank goodness someone finally listened.
