@technicat
I'm a Formula 1 racing fan. I know there was considerable disruption for locals ahead of and during the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Were you affected? Heard from anyone who was? Pro or con, I'm not an F1 zealot. I'm just very curious about people's experiences surrounding the event.
@BonnettsBooks I moved to the Salt Lake City area last summer and have been coming back to Vegas once a month but somehow I missed the whole Formula 1 thing. I only just saw a reference to problems in this article
@technicat
My curiosity was piqued when I went looking for user generated content. I imagined the area around the strip to be ALL commerce, and F1 being nothing but a boon. I found a considerable amount of grumbling, instead.
I'll remain a racing fan, but as a working stiff, I now want to know more about the impact on the residents & service workers trying to get by. Thanks for the link! 🙂👍
@BonnettsBooks Vegas is generally pretty bad about this. When I lived downtown they completely redid one of the streets next to my building and the end result was beautiful but instead of doing a segment at a time they'd dig up one block and move on to some other area and not return for weeks, so they shut down the whole street for months and some businesses gave up and shut down.
@technicat
Yikes!
One fellow on a video site was live-streaming his after-hours walk through the festivities outside the F1 venues. It was quite busy, festive even, but even this atmosphere couldn't snuff out the grumbling completely.
@technicat
They're doing it all wrong... Mass transit is great, if it's a public works project. At the very least, the city/county might now have to buy or lease the land for stations to do an underground transit system of their own accord.
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