If all goes right, in several years Las Vegas will also be the destination for the first true high speed rail service in North America, Brightline West. Traveling at speeds of up to 186mph, electric trains will make the trip between Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga in just over two hours. Riders will connect at RC with Metrolink, SoCal’s regional rail service, to get to/from LA. It’ll provide a much needed and long overdue alternative to driving the I-15 freeway, which is notorious for long traffic jams in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
@@anthonymartinez4307 how so? Construction is set to begin mid-2024, with a very ambitious goal of service starting in time for the 2028 LA Olympics. As for whether they can actually achieve that goal, that remains to be seen. They do have the land for the right of way and stations, and the entire route is environmentally cleared.
@@anthonymartinez4307for high speed rail, it reduces a lot of traffic southboard on I-15 from Nevada to SoCal. It’s also an alternative transportation if from the LA/IE area and don’t want to go by plane
@@rudyhernandez1043 between Metrolink, Brightline West, and (if it in fact happens) an autonomous vehicle people mover to Ontario Airport, as well as local transit, the Rancho Cucamonga station will become quite the hub.
The only thing the corporations that own the hotels *need* to do is generate revenue. That's their sole mission. Given how wildly popular, crowded, and successful Vegas has been post-pandemic, they have no incentive to offer more buffets, reduce show prices, eliminate parking and resort fees, or make the town any more budget-friendly than it is right now.
Southpoint Casino, few miles south of the strip has everything. Comp is excellent. There are movie theaters, bowling alley, arcades and one of the few places that still has buffet
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada. The Strip, as it is known, is about 4.2 mi (6.8 km) long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, but is often referred to simply as "Las Vegas". it is governed by the Clark County Commission, not by the City of Las Vegas.
The hole area is Las Vegas they just changed names to divert water usage. A city grows but it’s still the same city. North Vegas south Vegas Henderson Boulder are all in one location. The airport is one location this paradise Las Vegas Clark county is just spread out. Summerlyn is Las Vegas Henderson is Las Vegas. China town is Las Vegas.
They should have used the Rio for the A's new ball park and build a parking garage for locals to park as well as in&out lines for Uber & Lyft and one for cabs
Agreed. Not to mention having the stadium face EAST to the Strip skyline instead of west where the sun sets. Whoever thought it would be a great idea to have it face west with that hot summer sun and on the east side of the strip where there is no direct exit/entrance to the I-15 is an idiot!
Parents honeymooned there, much enjoyed until mom's stroke (went back for Star Trek Con; absolutely broiling). Criminal they demolished Tropicana sculpture (Eye just alien-craft creepy!). I expect in next century like most Southwest megacities will develop mass indoor walkways for beyond human tolerable temperatures.
In 1976 friends and I in their mid twenties moved to Las Vegas. Everyone said how dumb and childish we were. Now they say THEY wished had done it too once visiting it for first time. Never bother listening to other people.
My parents were honeymooning in late 1991, just months before I was born in May 1992. Long thereafter, we went to Las Vegas for the first time in 2004 when the Olympic summer games were ongoing in Athens, Greece. We stayed at Excalibur hotel and casino and we were just having a little bit of fun for three nights. Then, ten years later, we came back, but this time in a different hotel before we went to Circus Circus. Las Vegas is a city known for star-studded entertainment, and it feels like Hollywood. As always, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Las Vegas was one of those places I wanted to visit. And I did. It was fun. But I’d never return. It’s not my kind of place. I wonder if people are aware that if you stay in one of the big hotels, your every movement is monitored - the management knows when you come & go, how much time & money you spend at the casino, which restaurants you’re dining at.
Oh for sure, I have a coworker who did gaming audit in a casino and it is crazy how much they can know about you. You gamble there and they can know everything a background check can find and even social security number
I went with my cousin - like a boys only getaway from our wives/kids! He’s a big gambler, and they actually asked him why I turned in early at night, didn’t gamble, and woke up early to sightsee. It was really creepy. I wondered if they had cameras in the bathroom.
Casino surveillance has facial recognition so they can pretty much track everyone. I like it because I work there. Obviously there’s always psychos that don’t care if they get caught, but I like the fact that pretty much every time crime happens at or around a casino, the criminal is caught thanks to our surveillance.
Why is Las Vegas where it is? It was the mid point of the Los Angeles - Salt Lake City Railroad built by William Andrews Clark, hence Clark County wherein the city sits.
When gambling been legalized in many other states, hotels and restaurants need to come up with different ideas to keep the flow of people in. World best DJs, Sphere, Conventions, now Super Bowl who know what else is next
Its one of the most miserable places in our country. So many disillusioned people who thought they could get rich quick and ended up broke and near bankruptcy due to the addictive nature of gambling.
I was just in Vegas two weeks ago for my cousin’s wedding! It’s a cool city but I understand it’s not for everybody! I went 2-3 times as a kid in the early 2000’s when they had arcades for the little ones. But im surprised it’s changed in a mixed bag way in the last two decades. The Super Bowl should be awesome!
Vegas and Disneyland used to be fun & entertaining places to go. Now both are just huge money vacuums that will suck you dry of every last dollar you have. It was fun while it lasted but for me nowadays, it's adios.
I went to Vegas for the first time in 1995. I was expecting 3.99 buffets, fast free drink refills, etc. It was like an amusement park, and way too many kids. Went back in 2002, for a buddy's wedding, and it had gotten worse. God only knows what it's like now.
There are so many so-called "legends" these days that it cheapens the term. Mr. Las Vegas Wayne Newton is a real one. I used to go see all the past legends: Dean Martin, Sinatra and the King himself Elvis who was the best of them all live-in person. Elvis played Vegas for seven years but only a couple of weeks twice a year. Wayne Newton has pretty much played Vegas 40+ weeks a year since 1959.
They think everyone is going to pay over inflated ticket prices, please show the stadium attendance lol~ this city thinks everyone will just continue giving their money away. I’ll watch from home and still have a bank account the next day.
I agree that Steve Wynn was the catalyst for everything that improved since 1990 or so. Golden Nugget is still my favorite hotel in both Vegas and Laughlin.
Of all the cities supported by Lake Mead reservoir in the west, Vegas is the most secured by water. Only Las Vegas has a “straw” that can pull water from the deepest parts of the lake. If Lake Mead ever hits “Deadpool” a level where water cannot pass through the dam anymore, Vegas will be the only city still able to pull water from the lake. Phoenix and Southern California will be bone dry long before Vegas ever runs out of water.
Thats one reason for it's success. It doesn't pretend to be something it isn't. People find that attractive. After all, most people try to do some things in private that they criticize in public, hence the "what happens here, stays here" tagline.
Las Vegans wouldn't know what sin is today if it were a red boxing glover headed for their noses. Underneath the neon and glitter lies a very conservative populace and politicians. It's, largely, including the state, Mormon influenced.
The sad thing is at the end of the day it's about MONEY... Don't let anyone fool you. These people would sell their first born child for a little bit more money... That's the type of people we are dealing with.. Greedy, selfish, evil people.. rotten to the core.
Honeslty not even going to watch the super bowl this year. Tired of it. NFL sucks, 4 hours of commercials. one hour game. just done with these overpaid idiots smashing in to each other. I hope american football dies and other sports take over that are not as corporatized
There's been no sin in Sinless City for decades now. I lived there for 22 years and when I got hungry for sin I'd fly down to Tijuana where Prostitution is legal.
Incredibly parochial and patriarchal viewpoint. And I am probably more of a blue-blooded New Yorker than any of the reporting staff at CBS. So many of us enjoy the relatively low tax haven of the desert, where we can fly anywhere, and never interface with the strip--which you seem think espouses all the millions who live here. I leave the snow-shoveling to someone else at my Hudson River manse.
Sin City, run by gangsters, was a fun time when gamblers far and wide could actually win some money, sometimes big money. Today it is only a ploy for naive people thinking they might win big, when in reality it is nothing more than a sure losing game for everyone. If I never got again to Las Vegas, it will be too soon.
Sorry but we still have some of the worst healthcare, education, and no good paying jobs outside of tourism. Sure it is growing, but the city is still focusing more on entertainment than sustainability.
I love Vegas to death. Been there over 20 times. But I hate that it has now become a sports town. It always thrived on gambling and entertainment. People who follow sports are little brains.
Las Vegas has been a "sports town" for decades. Boxing, sports books, F1 in the 80s, etc. 41 VGK games and 10-11 Raiders games have no bearing on you enjoying a sports-free Las Vegas experience.
"There's nothing that goes on here that doesn't go on in every city pretty much in the world" -Mr Las Vegas
So accurate
Wayne Newton’s face looks like he is wearing a Wayne Newton mask
He's two face?
If all goes right, in several years Las Vegas will also be the destination for the first true high speed rail service in North America, Brightline West. Traveling at speeds of up to 186mph, electric trains will make the trip between Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga in just over two hours. Riders will connect at RC with Metrolink, SoCal’s regional rail service, to get to/from LA. It’ll provide a much needed and long overdue alternative to driving the I-15 freeway, which is notorious for long traffic jams in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
That means nothing.
@@anthonymartinez4307 how so? Construction is set to begin mid-2024, with a very ambitious goal of service starting in time for the 2028 LA Olympics. As for whether they can actually achieve that goal, that remains to be seen. They do have the land for the right of way and stations, and the entire route is environmentally cleared.
@@anthonymartinez4307for high speed rail, it reduces a lot of traffic southboard on I-15 from Nevada to SoCal. It’s also an alternative transportation if from the LA/IE area and don’t want to go by plane
I went to
Alta loma high and I’m from upland (so close to rancho) and that plan is pretty badass
@@rudyhernandez1043 between Metrolink, Brightline West, and (if it in fact happens) an autonomous vehicle people mover to Ontario Airport, as well as local transit, the Rancho Cucamonga station will become quite the hub.
They need to bring back affordable buffets and hotels
Plenty of affordable hotel/casinos less than 2 hours south.
The only thing the corporations that own the hotels *need* to do is generate revenue. That's their sole mission. Given how wildly popular, crowded, and successful Vegas has been post-pandemic, they have no incentive to offer more buffets, reduce show prices, eliminate parking and resort fees, or make the town any more budget-friendly than it is right now.
They need to bring back arcades too for us kids and young at heart
Southpoint Casino, few miles south of the strip has everything. Comp is excellent. There are movie theaters, bowling alley, arcades and one of the few places that still has buffet
You can still find those things, just not on the strip.
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada. The Strip, as it is known, is about 4.2 mi (6.8 km) long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, but is often referred to simply as "Las Vegas". it is governed by the Clark County Commission, not by the City of Las Vegas.
The hole area is Las Vegas they just changed names to divert water usage. A city grows but it’s still the same city. North Vegas south Vegas Henderson Boulder are all in one location. The airport is one location this paradise Las Vegas Clark county is just spread out. Summerlyn is Las Vegas Henderson is Las Vegas. China town is Las Vegas.
Super Bowl was great in Vegas cause you have stuff to do afterwards late into the night and have the fun continue compared to a regular city
I didn't know Wayne Newton was still alive.
Yeah he is but his original face died at least 30 years ago lol
I applied for a job at UNLV in 2022. How I wish I could have gotten it!
He is most certainly Mr. Las Vegas!!!
They should have used the Rio for the A's new ball park and build a parking garage for locals to park as well as in&out lines for Uber & Lyft and one for cabs
Rio has Trek convention and great Indian buffet. Too irreplaceable!
Agreed. Not to mention having the stadium face EAST to the Strip skyline instead of west where the sun sets. Whoever thought it would be a great idea to have it face west with that hot summer sun and on the east side of the strip where there is no direct exit/entrance to the I-15 is an idiot!
I will be there for Super Bowl vibes!!!! Here from Phoenix!!!!!!
Welcome my fellow desert dweller
We still don’t have a lot of water 😂😂😂😂
Las Vegas needs an extra-terrestrial themed resort, due to its proximity to Area 51.
Las Vegas needs to put some Sin into Las Vegas with a red light district.
Parents honeymooned there, much enjoyed until mom's stroke (went back for Star Trek Con; absolutely broiling). Criminal they demolished Tropicana sculpture (Eye just alien-craft creepy!). I expect in next century like most Southwest megacities will develop mass indoor walkways for beyond human tolerable temperatures.
In 1976 friends and I in their mid twenties moved to Las Vegas. Everyone said how dumb and childish we were. Now they say THEY wished had done it too once visiting it for first time. Never bother listening to other people.
My parents were honeymooning in late 1991, just months before I was born in May 1992. Long thereafter, we went to Las Vegas for the first time in 2004 when the Olympic summer games were ongoing in Athens, Greece. We stayed at Excalibur hotel and casino and we were just having a little bit of fun for three nights. Then, ten years later, we came back, but this time in a different hotel before we went to Circus Circus. Las Vegas is a city known for star-studded entertainment, and it feels like Hollywood. As always, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
$$$ & GREED SIN!!!
Las Vegas is for people who vacation on cruise ships and shop in strip malls. Not my cup of tea but I get why it's a suitable host for the Super Bowl.
NYC is just as commercial and fake anymore. Same with alot of cities.
Las Vegas was one of those places I wanted to visit. And I did. It was fun. But I’d never return. It’s not my kind of place. I wonder if people are aware that if you stay in one of the big hotels, your every movement is monitored - the management knows when you come & go, how much time & money you spend at the casino, which restaurants you’re dining at.
Surveillance everywhere. Kind of the world we live in.
Oh for sure, I have a coworker who did gaming audit in a casino and it is crazy how much they can know about you. You gamble there and they can know everything a background check can find and even social security number
I went with my cousin - like a boys only getaway from our wives/kids! He’s a big gambler, and they actually asked him why I turned in early at night, didn’t gamble, and woke up early to sightsee. It was really creepy. I wondered if they had cameras in the bathroom.
Casino surveillance has facial recognition so they can pretty much track everyone.
I like it because I work there.
Obviously there’s always psychos that don’t care if they get caught,
but I like the fact that pretty much every time crime happens at or around a casino,
the criminal is caught thanks to our surveillance.
Your bank or credit card company knows that too.
Why is Las Vegas where it is? It was the mid point of the Los Angeles - Salt Lake City Railroad built by William Andrews Clark, hence Clark County wherein the city sits.
Las Vegas was originally a Mormon settlement and the Mormons are still there aplenty. Witness the Mormon Temple at the end of Bonanza Road.
When gambling been legalized in many other states, hotels and restaurants need to come up with different ideas to keep the flow of people in. World best DJs, Sphere, Conventions, now Super Bowl who know what else is next
All I know about Vegas is as soon as I get there I can't wait to leave
Bye
Its one of the most miserable places in our country. So many disillusioned people who thought they could get rich quick and ended up broke and near bankruptcy due to the addictive nature of gambling.
You don't like having a good time.
Why go then 🤔 ??
I was just in Vegas two weeks ago for my cousin’s wedding! It’s a cool city but I understand it’s not for everybody! I went 2-3 times as a kid in the early 2000’s when they had arcades for the little ones. But im surprised it’s changed in a mixed bag way in the last two decades. The Super Bowl should be awesome!
3 zeros on the roulette game?! That's outrageous!! 😱😠
GOOD VIDEO... WELL REPORTER AND THOROUGH, THANKS!
conformity creates reality as consistency becomes tradition
Boring is beautiful though boring is generous.
Las Vegas will be the the most sought after destination in the world as it moves to a new sports entertainment hub for years to come. Cheers! 🏅
Remind all those sports fans that there is an amazing outdoor "nature" experience here too
thats saudi lol
Vegas and Disneyland used to be fun & entertaining places to go. Now both are just huge money vacuums that will suck you dry of every last dollar you have. It was fun while it lasted but for me nowadays, it's adios.
I went to Vegas for the first time in 1995. I was expecting 3.99 buffets, fast free drink refills, etc. It was like an amusement park, and way too many kids. Went back in 2002, for a buddy's wedding, and it had gotten worse. God only knows what it's like now.
Bugsy would be proud.
Illegal is legal as long as the government gets a cut
There are so many so-called "legends" these days that it cheapens the term. Mr. Las Vegas Wayne Newton is a real one. I used to go see all the past legends: Dean Martin, Sinatra and the King himself Elvis who was the best of them all live-in person. Elvis played Vegas for seven years but only a couple of weeks twice a year. Wayne Newton has pretty much played Vegas 40+ weeks a year since 1959.
They think everyone is going to pay over inflated ticket prices, please show the stadium attendance lol~ this city thinks everyone will just continue giving their money away. I’ll watch from home and still have a bank account the next day.
I’ll be watching from California
Madame Tussaud's called. They want their Wayne Newton wax figure back.
And that's why I own VICI stock.
nothing surprises me anymore for anything. We have all lost our moral compass so lets just do what ever when ever.
2:04 nobody remembers 1919 😂
soxx fanz doez
It will always be steve wynns town!! Where is a statue of him!!!!
I agree that Steve Wynn was the catalyst for everything that improved since 1990 or so. Golden Nugget is still my favorite hotel in both Vegas and Laughlin.
@@steveludwig4200 i also worked 4 him and met him many times.u couldn't find a better boss 2 work for!!
It was Chris Christie not Phil Murphy who got sports betting for any state that wants it.
fans remember when vegas became bts theme
Who would ever want to live over a Nuclear Aquafer?
Just look what it's done, to Wayne Newton!
Can't live in a place with a dangerously low water supply...
Of all the cities supported by Lake Mead reservoir in the west, Vegas is the most secured by water. Only Las Vegas has a “straw” that can pull water from the deepest parts of the lake. If Lake Mead ever hits “Deadpool” a level where water cannot pass through the dam anymore, Vegas will be the only city still able to pull water from the lake. Phoenix and Southern California will be bone dry long before Vegas ever runs out of water.
Water will always arise to $$
pretty low down when a city is happy to be called sin.
Thats one reason for it's success. It doesn't pretend to be something it isn't. People find that attractive. After all, most people try to do some things in private that they criticize in public, hence the "what happens here, stays here" tagline.
Las Vegans wouldn't know what sin is today if it were a red boxing glover headed for their noses. Underneath the neon and glitter lies a very conservative populace and politicians. It's, largely, including the state, Mormon influenced.
Interesting!
noboday gonna watch da Az
Give credit to the Mormons, yes I said it they had a part in settlement of this city😮
Too bad none of the video is located in the City. Minor league baseball was played at Cashman Field in the City of Las Vegas in the 90's.
Is the mafia still there? in any capacity??
it is NOT a SPHERE!! its a DOME its NOT a complete sphere get real guys
Las Vegas became Sinless City decades ago. When the old Mob left Las Vegas, so went the sin. Las Vegas is a very conservative, Mormon-influenced city.
The sad thing is at the end of the day it's about MONEY...
Don't let anyone fool you.
These people would sell their first born child for a little bit more money...
That's the type of people we are dealing with..
Greedy, selfish, evil people.. rotten to the core.
Lol... Evolved from Sin City...
Honeslty not even going to watch the super bowl this year. Tired of it. NFL sucks, 4 hours of commercials. one hour game. just done with these overpaid idiots smashing in to each other. I hope american football dies and other sports take over that are not as corporatized
Don't forget to mention the "Pfzer and Ta Ta show"! Let's all pray her jet makes it half way round the world in time!
Pay attention to the agenda the commercials are pushing this year. They are all subliminal in some way.
no one cares
@@tacoface6029 said your mom after you popped out 😜😜😜
I mean it always has been and will be sin city. No getting around it lol
There's been no sin in Sinless City for decades now. I lived there for 22 years and when I got hungry for sin I'd fly down to Tijuana where Prostitution is legal.
Oakland's loss is Las Vegas's gain.
Not with weasel John Fisher.
@@patrickleitgeb The value of the A's is going to double once they move to Vegas
Soon Oakland will just move there
They had a new stadium to host it
🙄🙄🙄
Please. Owners were fixing World Series so they wouldn’t have to pay the players. Before 1919 and after.
why not now, the nfl has become seedy👺
Vegas has not been sin city for a long long time. Now its similar to a Walmart with slots lots of lites and flash for a fee
People don't realize the state of NV and Las Vegas are Mormon-influenced. Las Vegas was originally a Mormon settlement, and the Mormons never left.
VEGAS IS A TON OF CASH. WATER IS $6 FOR A SMALL BOTTLE. ITS STILL AN EXPERIENCE THAT EVERYONE SHOILD HAVE
4get datt den, AC 4 me
Incredibly parochial and patriarchal viewpoint. And I am probably more of a blue-blooded New Yorker than any of the reporting staff at CBS. So many of us enjoy the relatively low tax haven of the desert, where we can fly anywhere, and never interface with the strip--which you seem think espouses all the millions who live here. I leave the snow-shoveling to someone else at my Hudson River manse.
Thank you Monopoly top hat guy lmao
Sin City, run by gangsters, was a fun time when gamblers far and wide could actually win some money, sometimes big money. Today it is only a ploy for naive people thinking they might win big, when in reality it is nothing more than a sure losing game for everyone. If I never got again to Las Vegas, it will be too soon.
The gamblers that come to Vegas today are now down to 25%
oh~
The underground
Sorry but we still have some of the worst healthcare, education, and no good paying jobs outside of tourism. Sure it is growing, but the city is still focusing more on entertainment than sustainability.
I love Vegas to death. Been there over 20 times. But I hate that it has now become a sports town. It always thrived on gambling and entertainment. People who follow sports are little brains.
Las Vegas has been a "sports town" for decades. Boxing, sports books, F1 in the 80s, etc. 41 VGK games and 10-11 Raiders games have no bearing on you enjoying a sports-free Las Vegas experience.
or follow u
$$$$$$$$ ?
Steve Wynn copycat. He will never be replaced! He started the Vegas we see today!!!
Orlando falling behind with Democrat leaders.
wit so much potential
Ok but isn't Florida a strong and proud Republican state?
@@josem.rodriguez1121
natt orange kountay
Geez-Sh-Christ!! STOP the plastic surgery already Newton!!! WOW😮
I thought he died years ago. Then again, maybe he DID die and that’s his plasticized corpse.
Nevada can stupidly spend another 1 billion bucks in tax money on a f**king useless stadium for all I care. I don't live there
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We all know who is going to win the super bowl, the NFL wants Taylor Swift to be on the field celebrating with Kelce , great marketing
Im all for sports but not baseball man, fxxeck sake, anywhere baseball touches comes the ultimate bore fest
What a waste of money 😢
no, it’s definitely still sin city
A sin city would have a red light district and Las Vegas has never had a red light district. Get real!
@@michaelellringer5600 There are sex clubs and bathhouses in every major city in America.
@@nickbarcheck1019 There should be a class action lawsuit against Las Vegas for falsely stating Las Vegas is Sin City!
I highly doubt Adele is in Vegas to attract gen-z 💀😂