LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A home-owner has spent the previous few years on a campaign to maneuver a college bus cease in a harmful intersection within the east valley with out a lot success.
Mike Wolther sought the assistance of the Clark County Fee and the Clark County College District to no avail, so he reached out to eight Information Now.
“I’ve always had concern about this bus stop and we used to monitor it a lot more, but now the traffic has picked up so much more that it’s out of hand out there,” Wolther mentioned of the college bus cease positioned at Broadbent Boulevard and Cherry Road close to Boulder Freeway.
Wolther beforehand served as HOA president of Squire Village, the neighborhood during which the bus cease is positioned in entrance of.
In 2024, a automotive crashed into a house final yr a couple of ft away from the place the kids board the college bus.
“It’s not their children out here. Maybe if they had their kids out here, this would be done already,” mentioned Wolther who has grandchildren who take the bus. “It’s just been people don’t care because it’s not their kids out there.”
The realm had a gradual stream of vehicular site visitors with automobiles principally touring west on Broadbent Boulevard to get to Boulder Freeway.
Boulder Freeway is about one mile west of Wolther’s house, the place Broadbent ultimately turns into Tropicana Avenue.
Over the course of two days, 8 Information Now visited the bus cease location and noticed automobiles that seemed to be dashing, whereas making an attempt to navigate development zones.
“It’s 45 miles an hour out there, where everybody is doing around 60 and plus,” Wolther mentioned.
The college bus cease has been at Broadbent Boulevard and Cherry Road for so long as Wolther can bear in mind.
He spoke throughout public remark at Clark County Fee conferences and mentioned he has an answer for this downside — let the bus choose up the kids contained in the gated neighborhood close to the cease, the place he owns a house.
“We’re hoping we could get this solved. That would be very important. Just the answer is here. It cost nothing to do, and we get it off of a 45 mile an hour highway where they’re doing 60 and we get it in here at a 15 mile an hour ride,” he mentioned.
Rush hour site visitors has elevated within the space as new properties are constructed. Building crews started constructing a brand new 53-home neighborhood close to the Clark County Wetlands.
8 Information Now has but to obtain a response from the Clark County College District on the college bus cease.
