LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — On Tuesday, Clark County commissioners will vote on a proposal concerning the pedestrian bridge close to Dawn Hospital on Maryland Parkway. The vote will resolve the almost 50-year-old bridge’s destiny.
Clark County Division of Public Works is requesting approval to take away the getting older bridge, which wants repairs and was fenced off in December 2024.
In an announcement, Dawn Hospital and Medical Heart officers supported the proposal to take down the bridge. KLAS spoke with two individuals who had opposing views on the proposal.
Ashley Geekae has lived within the space for 4 years and helps the removing of the bridge.
“I don’t see any negative effect by it being gone,” mentioned Geekae, who walks that path a number of occasions a month and makes positive to keep away from the bridge, as an alternative utilizing the crosswalk. “Homeless people like to sleep or sit in there, and it ends up smelling like feces and urine. It’s just really uncomfortable.”
Nonetheless, not everybody agrees. Selena Morales is a proponent of retaining the bridge, as a result of she feels it permits her simpler entry to sure locations, akin to her physician’s appointments on the hospital.
“Please do not take down the bridge, because we are many people who need it,” Morales mentioned. Morales mentioned she believes the bridge is optimistic for the aged neighborhood and makes their lives simpler.
“Right now, I am going to take the bus this way. If I have to take the bus on the other side, I cross the bridge,” she defined. “For me, it’s better if they leave it.”
Nonetheless, proponents of the proposal say there are higher methods to get across the space, such because the crosswalks.
“There’s even a crosswalk right across from the hospital,” she defined. “So it is accessible either way.”
Geekae mentioned, “I wouldn’t use this bridge even if they left it.”
