A new City of Las Vegas website shows just how great things will be when you’re downtown ... a few months or years from now. Called Your Downtown, it’s a compendium of infrastructure construction projects scheduled in the city's core. It’s as straightforward as it is useful, giving succinct names, locations, descriptions and durations of bike lane improvements, median upgrades, sidewalk infills and the like. A keyed, color-coded map summarizes everything tidily.
In case you’re wondering – no, other Las Vegas neighborhoods don’t get the same treatment. Why is downtown singled out? Over the next 3-5 years, a majority of downtown streets will be revamped, said Jorge Cervantes, Las Vegas’ executive director of community development. With the area’s redevelopment in full bloom, and concerts, parades, fun-runs and other cultural events going on constantly, the city needed a way to communicate construction plans with business owners and event planners. Cervantes hopes the site will help all those involved work together to avoid headaches before they happen.
For now, there’s no way for the public to comment, ask questions or give tips about scheduled projects on the site, but Cervantes said his office would explore adding a feedback mechanism. As for other neighborhoods, they will soon get an interactive Google-type map showing capital improvements detailed in pop-up boxes. Now, if the city can get to work on an app that fixes potholes ...
