In Las Vegas, where the famed Strip is inundated with tourist traffic, Las Vegas Monorail Corp. is building a $650-million, 3.8-mile-long monorail system to relieve some of the congestion. The elevated guide-way either parallels or runs along Paradise Road between the MGM Grand and Sahara hotel-casino, just east of Las Vegas Boulevard. The undertaking covers a corridor accounting for 25,000 hotel rooms and 4 million square feet of convention space, including stops at Bally's, Paris Las Vegas, Flamingo Hilton, Harrah's, Imperial Palace, and the Las Vegas Convention Center. As such, the state-of-the-art transit system is expected to lighten Strip traffic by 4.4 million trips annually, preventing an estimated 135 tons worth of carbon monoxide emissions. The Las Vegas monorail will be the first urban "heavy" monorail system to be built in the United States, as opposed to the two-station shuttle system in Seattle (which is soon to be expanded).
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