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Terrible Transportation In Las Vegas

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Terrible Transportation in Las Vegas The RTC, Regional Transportation Commission, is the only bus system all around the Las Vegas area and it covers most of the valley. People all over this vast city depend on this multicultural transit system, whether they are old, young, rich, or poor. Nevertheless, riding the bus in Las Vegas is not only dangerous, it is time-consuming, on top of being a filthy place to expose oneself to. The bus in this city is alarming to ride in many areas of the town as passengers make their way from point A to point B. The bus travels straight up and down each street without turning on most of its routes. As the bus repeatedly drives along its route it heads through some not so decent parts of town, this can be seen …show more content…

Keep in mind that when riding there are no phone charger abilities and bus drivers do not let anyone sleep. Often, it takes about an hour to get anywhere in this city by bus, sometimes two or more if planning on going across town; seriously sluggish compared to a car which only takes thirty minutes to an hour to cut clear across town. Regularly, there are long wait times for a bus to arrive with every twenty minutes being the quickest a bus will appear. Some buses, like the Warm Springs 217 bus route and the Tory Pines bus only run once an hour. Furthermore, if a bus is out of commission suddenly for any reason at all, the transit system does not send a replacement; passengers are left waiting at the bus stop without any kind of warning and postponed until the next bus in route shows. It happens more frequently than one would think of for a bus to run up to five, ten, and even sometimes fifteen minutes late. However, if a bus is early it must wait at its assigned stop until its regularly scheduled route timestamp to allow for customers to catch the …show more content…

Remember how earlier it was mentioned that any fare paying passenger was allowed on the bus, this includes people with the flu or any kind of sickness creating a germ-infested bus that is only cleaned once a day! All too often bus riders seem to have no sense of respect for fellow passengers leaving their trash on the seats when they depart. In just about every bus in the valley, a rider can see stains on the floor that are sometimes sticky from the drinks spilled throughout that single day even though drinks are not allowed on the bus. Along with icky floors comes gross windows or sometimes even gunk on the seats this is often from the children who smear their dirty fingers and faces all over the bus. Unfortunately, this junk is left on the bus all day for each passenger to see. Rather a repulsive sight when someone takes the time to think that even as often as the bus stops at the transit stations no one wipes the buses down between runs even with all the stops that a bus

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