The monorail has so far suffered from maintenance problems and low ridership. It cost $650 million to build the four mile track that opened in July 2004. The monorail's most recent triumph, written about on the Buffet, involved getting GM to give much needed sponsorship money to defray the lack of riders. In fact, plans to expand the monorail north past the Sahara and into downtown were long ago put on indefinite hold. But the "Las Vegas Sun" is reporting that a total lack of any tangible success, has inspired the operators of the Las Vegas monorail to reach for even more grandiose visions. In fact, Monorail President Curtis Myles has a name for the problem plagued monorail's various issues, the past:

Just forward in a slightly different direction, of course. The latest plan involves spending 1.8 billion (that's right this is to solve the problem that the $650 million investment isn't going well) and expand the monorail to the McCarran airport. How about not?