Trust me, I ducked into a manhole and saw them.Ĭrews have had their own obstacles as well. In this case, workers are truly underground. Restricting lanes helps protect workers and motorists as massive vaults are placed underground and cables are pulled through and spliced. It’s at its worst at Las Vegas Boulevard, where heavy traffic in the heart of the resort corridor has been forced into two lanes, sometimes one. Orange cones and barrels have littered the stretch of Flamingo between I-15 and Koval for months. But the utility lines on Flamingo were installed in the early 1960s, when underground utilities were not an option. ![]() Those power lines and massive towers are rarely seen on major roads anymore. Harrah’s owns casinos on three of the four corners of the Flamingo-Las Vegas Boulevard intersection. Most important, the above-ground utilities obstruct future expansion of Harrah’s properties. The lines and giant transmission poles aren’t exactly the attractions tourists look for when deciding where to stay. Harrah’s plan to bury power lines on the north side of Flamingo has been on the table for two decades. As in obstructing views and future expansion. Obscene also describes the language cabbies use when they call my line and ask - we’ll clean this up - “What the heck is going on and when in tarnation will Flamingo be back to normal?” During any time of day or evening, bumper-to-bumper traffic inching eastbound can be seen backed up to the Rio hotel-casino. That is an appropriate description of eastbound traffic traveling across the Strip during the last year as Wilson Construction crews began gouging the earth and digging trenches to sink nearly a mile’s worth of power lines between Interstate 15 and Koval Lane. And lately, that “O” could stand for any number of things. ![]() Some locals call the thoroughfare Flaming-O. Since Harrah’s Entertainment embarked on a $60 million endeavor to bury power lines, the increasingly common name for Flamingo has become Road. Flamingo Road is one of the oldest and busiest east-west arterials that guides tourists, cabbies and locals across Las Vegas Boulevard.
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