It was a blazing 104 degrees on the Las Vegas Strip earlier this month when Ricky Kendall and six other bus riders trudged across the Interstate 15 overpass on Flamingo Road, each clutching water bottles and shielding their faces from the sun with whatever they could find.
Kendall, who works at a resort company call center, usually just takes the bus from the Horseshoe to his home off Flamingo and Decatur Boulevard.
But on this day the bus was nowhere to be found.
The reason: Construction work and repaving of the Strip for the inaugural Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix prevented the bus from reaching Kendall’s usual stop.
