Great post! I agree, a new Moulin Rouge in Las Vegas would be amazing!

It was interesting hearing Local Trish Geran on a national broadcast. Congrats to the F Street co! Steve, I think the difference here is the sentiment behind the closure. If I understand it correctly, the coalition feels as if this move was done to further segregate and isolate the community, metaphorically and physically cutting it off from a major money-making project (symphony park).

It’s really too bad so many West Las Vegas residents feel as if they are being isolated with the closure of F St. North of Bonanza, F St. leads into a residential neighborhood, often times, most people would be thrilled with such a closure. Any real estate expert or neighborhood developer will agree, residential streets that encourage higher volumes of traffic, destroy the integrity of any neighborhood. If you were to take some time to explore a neighborhood with similar circumstances, just 4,000 feet away from F Street, you would see what I mean. The neighborhood roughly bordered by the 95, Alta, Rancho and the 15 is in a very similar situation. As the West Las Vegas neighborhood is roughly bordered by 2 freeways, so too is the Alta/Rancho neighborhood. The Alta/Rancho neighborhood is isolated from direct access to Symphony Park. There are no direct access residential roads going under the freeways directly into this residential neighborhood. This isolation protects the neighborhood from cut through traffic, making it safer for children and pedestrians, and it makes for a quieter neighborhood. Such a situation also insures that the vast majority of vehicles traveling through, are either residents or friends of residents. These situations makes for a more desirable residential situation for most people. If you compare the Rancho/Alta neighborhood access to downtown, to the West Las Vegas neighborhood with F St. closed, they would be very similar. The closure of F St. at the 15 would help insure a more quiet and safer neighborhood.

If F St. were to be closed at the 95, it would be a completely different story. A closure at the 95 would limit access to Bonanza from Symphony Park, thus severely limiting potential commercial development on Bonanza, clearly creating an economic disadvantage for the area. F street closes right at the point where the area turns residential. The city had even installed a speed hump or two to control the speed of the traffic that raced through this residential neighborhood when the street was open. The closure of F Street at this location makes perfect sense in order to preserve a neighborhood feel.

The real story here is the tale of 2 neighboring neighborhoods, one that has been isolated for years and years, and one that has been recently isolated. The differences between the 2, as far as having a neighborhood feel, are stark. The one that has been isolated for ages, should be used as model for the West Las Vegas neighborhood, and embraced, not rejected.