How do locals get from one side of The Strip to the other without having to deal with The Strip in any way, shape, or form?

We take something known as the Desert Inn Super-Arterial.

What is a “Super Arterial”?

The holy hell if I know, that’s just what they call it.

Most locals call it “The DI” or simply “DI” … for quite obvious reasons.

We took the DI yesterday afternoon for some quick business on the “other side”, and I caught the trip.

I think the gist of the super arterial thing is that it is not quite a surface road, and not quite a freeway. It’s something in between. The “super arterial” portion has no stoplights, and it runs from a block north of Chinatown all the way to the Convention Center. It’s a 45 mph stretch.

Either end of the “super” portion are also well-known speed traps, so I wouldn’t even think about going 46. LVMPD sits at the end waiting for people to coast down the slope and nab them. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Fining people on this stretch of road probably accounts for 75% of Nevada’s revenue.

Anyway, taking DI you can go from Valley View to Paradise in only 3 short minutes … and I recorded the entire trip. At normal speed this time so you wouldn’t get sick.

The video begins taking a left from Valley View onto DI, and stops at the Convention Center. This is the entirety of the “super” portion of the road.

Going from Valley View to Paradise via Flamingo or Tropicana during peak times would take … well, I don’t want to think about how long it would take. I get road rage just considering it.

So may the grand deity (whoever he/she may be) bless the people who created this wonderful thing, or else I would never, ever see the West Side of Las Vegas.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Don’t complain about the damn music. I have to put something in there besides wind noise, and I just dragged what I was listening to at the time into the video. The audio happens to be about three minutes long, the video happens to be about three minutes long, so BINGO!

We have a fucking winner.

Really, that’s all the thought that went into it. It has no relevance to the subject matter, but I just could not conceive of a song that matched the theme of “Driving an obscure stretch of urban highway”.

And I outright refuse to put an Elvis or Sinatra song into a Vegas video under any circumstance. I’ll jab myself in the frontal lobe with an ice pick first.

It’s overdone.

I swear if one more person sets a Vegas video to Elvis or Frank, I’m jumping off the Stratosphere.