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Transportation of Nevada

Here is a brief picture of the transportation in Nevada:

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The public transportation in Las Vegas is usually provided by a four mile monorail system. Running near the Paradise Road, it serves quite a lot of casinos, the biggest attractions of Las Vegas. In the future, there are possibilities of it to extend to the McCarran International Airport, which is the busiest airport in Nevada. Another major airport of Nevada is, Reno-Tahoe International Airport (previously known as the Reno Cannon International Airport)

Nevada Railways

The Transportation of Nevada has a well-linked network with excellent trains and bus services. The California Zephyr of Amtrak runs through the Union Pacific's original transcontinental railroad. It offers daily service from Chicago to Emeryville, California. Through the way, it serves places like Elko, Winnemucca, Sparks, and Reno. The railway service in Nevada is well connected to almost all parts of the state. The Amtrak Thruway Motorcoaches provide services from Las Vegas to Needles, California, Los Angeles, and Bakersfield, California. The trains also run from Stateline in Nevada, to Sacramento in California.

Las Vegas however lacks a passenger train service after the withdrawal of the service of Amtrak’s Desert Wind in 1997. The good news is, proposals are flowing in recent times re-inforcing the need of re-introduction of the service to either Los Angeles or Southern California.

The Union Pacific railroad also offers its service in the north and south of Nevada.

The Road Network in Nevada

The Interstate 15, I-215 and spur route I-515 are the roads that serve Las Vegas and the other metropolitan areas in and around it. The Interstate 80 follows the Humboldt River from Utah roughly and heads to the northern part of Nevada. Then it passes westward through Reno and enters California. Interstate 80 also has a spur, which is I-580. Nevada is however one of the few states in the USA which does not have any continuous interstate highway to link the major population areas.

The other federal highways of Nevada are US 6, US 50, US 93, US 95 and US 395. 189 state highways form a well-woven grid of road network in Nevada.

The widely used public transit system in the Las Vegas metropolitan area is the RTC transit which offers bus service across the Las Vegas Valley. The deuce and double-decker local transit buses run through the outlying routes of the Las Vegas strip. The RTC RIDE also runs local buses throughout the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area. JAC in Carson City is yet another transit system. However, most of the counties in Nevada cannot boast of any public transportation at all.

Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)

List of Airports in Nevada

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