Could the Oakland Athletics — or more accurately the Las Vegas Athletics — breathe new life into the Las Vegas Monorail?
The short answer is probably not, but because the Major League Baseball team is rapidly closing in on developing a new $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat stadium home at the site of the Tropicana, the idea is worthy of discussion. Of course that is all dependent on the Nevada Legislature approving a bill that provides up to $380 million in public financing for a stadium, which was still under discussion as of Saturday.
The proposed stadium site is right across the street from the southern terminus of the Monorail, a quiet, zero- emissions transit system.
