Update: From Allison Blankenship, PIO:

The RTC’s UNLV Multi-Modal Transit Hub Feasibility Study is near completion and we expect the study findings to be presented to the RTC Board in the next month or so. At this point, funding for the project is not secured.

Board meetings are on the second Thursday of the month at 8:45 a.m. Please attend if you think this study is important. I’ll be sending out reminders on here and via Facebook. Friend us to keep apprised of the situation.

Many local public institutions suffer from lack of visibility. It may, in small part, be due to lack of will to really inform. Or lack of people to inform. Or it may be that all the news happens in committee meetings and not on Facebook. Whatever it is, I’m starting up a new series “Stuff No One Really Advertises” to expose those things which go completely under the radar of the UNLV community, of course with the bent on mobility and livable streets (someone help me find a sexier name for this?).

Today, while doing some shallow digging on RTC’s website, I found a study done in March 2008 on possible transit hubs around campus.

Yes, UNLV and RTC want(ed?) to partner up to give students, faculty and staff better access to buses, bike paths, pedestrian walkways and car traffic. I don’t know about the last one because it seems to be in total contradiction to the other three, but ok.

There are five “alternate sites” where this could happen, in which I respond – why not build all five? These are indicated in two maps showing where some bus stops could be placed.

Stop #1: By the Red Lot, home of the soon to be built parking garage in front of Thomas and Mack.
Stop #2: By the bookstore, urban affairs college and student union.
Stop #3: White Lot, or as students like it call it BFE.
Stop #4: Free lot, again BFE.
Stop #5: UNLV entrance (where Frazier hall used to be) and Ham Fine Arts.

Here’s a map to help you visualize, click on the highlighted areas to get more information:

View Transit Hubs around UNLV? in a larger map
(For some reason its showing the entire US. Please keep zooming in.)

What became of this, I can only assume is another study – the Maryland Parkway corridor study which is evaluating the street for a possible bus rapid transit line.

What will happen to UNLV as a transit hub, though?

Related posts:

1. UNLV Transit Hub Study, Part 2 of 2
2. UNLV Transit Hub Study, Part 1 of 2 (potentially)
3. UNLV Civil Engineering Doesn’t Know How to Solve Vegas Transit Problems
4. ACE coming to UNLV?
5. Where Should Vegas Start?