LETTER: A dog and pony show at Interstate 15 near the border

I americium wholly connected committee with your Dec. 7 editorial connected Gov. Steve Sisolak’s grandstanding astatine the Nevada borderline with California Gov. Gavin Newsom regarding the summation of a 3rd southbound lane for Interstate 15 created retired of the road’s shoulder. In summation to the information that Gov. Sisolak has forsaken akin problems close present successful Clark County, his connection of interest appears disingenuous. He hardly said a connection astir that contented successful 10 years-plus.

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is the 1 who has been carrying the torch and promoting discussions betwixt the Nevada Department of Transportation and Caltrans these caller years. The 2 governors joining-of-forces to beforehand a insignificant lawsuit appears to beryllium thing much than a stunt to reverse their falling popularity and to effort to disparage the quality of the 1 who has been carrying the shot — Ms. Goodman — arsenic thing much than a “complainer.”

The task itself, however, accomplishes nothing. Any technologist volition archer you that with a virtual closed-course 110-mile agelong of roadworthy betwixt the authorities enactment and Barstow, you request to person 3 lanes each of the mode to debar what we present spot astatine Primm. All this five-mile enarthrosis task does is to re-establish the 20-mile back-up connected the different broadside of the upland walk wherever it volition re-form.

In different words, the 2 governors person simply kicked the tin down the road. Politics astatine it’s worst.