See the empty strip

This post will be dated sooner or later but there's a live stream of the empty strip on YouTube. It's sort of hypnotic.

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This post will be dated sooner or later but there's a live stream of the empty strip on YouTube. It's sort of hypnotic.

All I see is an empty thread. Where's the link.

Here's the video - it appears to be at the bus stop on the other side of the Strip from NYNY

I'm going to check out downtown after my live stream. Will report on it tomorrow.

Yahoo News has a photo of a masked couple walking on Fremont by the Four Queens and they are the only people in sight. I was surprised there was no police or security in sight.

Quote: Wizard

I'm going to check out downtown after my live stream. Will report on it tomorrow.

Take the unicycle. Great time to make a video.

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Here's the video - it appears to be at the bus stop on the other side of the Strip from NYNY

Heh... just watched a guy hanging out in the middle of the empty street.

The camera angle changed since the last time I looked at it. Yesterday it was rotated about 45 degrees counterclockwise. You could see the tip of the green MGM sign and NYNY and the Excalibur and a tiny bit of the Luxor. I guess that's how they keep busy out there these days.

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Take the unicycle. Great time to make a video.

Yup. Ride down the busiest parts
of the Strip sidewalk, busy when
it's busy I mean. You could even
set up a tripod, who's there to
steal the camera. Or take somebody
with you to video. You'll never have
this opportunity again.

Yesterday around 3 p.m. , I was driving home from out near the M. I decided to take a detour home and drive the strip all the way to Sahara. I wanted to video it, but was driving solo. I made sure to pay attention closely. I didn't think anybody would be all that interested enough to start a new thread about it, but perhaps they are.

My first focal point was the welcome to Las Vegas sign. I was dumbfounded to see a sh*tload of people there. Then I was irked at the stupidity when I noticed a large group of people huddling together to get a picture. They were all crammed in and huddled together as close as they could. I'm pretty sure people's faces were touching the guy with the cell phone attached to a long selfie stick. It looked like it was at least 20. There were other various groups scattered about in close proximity to them. It actually pisses me off people like that are the ones spreading the virus just so they can get some dumb pictures.

After I got past the Las Vegas sign, I wouldn't describe it as a ghost town, for the most part it reminded me of what it was like on an early Sunday morning back in the 90s.

I noticed one security guard patrolling outside near the Cosmopolitan.

I noticed there was no cars in the strip-side parking garage at the Tropicana.

The busiest part of the strip was at the Tropicana intersection with about 80 cars at the stoplight. I noticed a city bus traveling along Tropicana. I couldn't tell if there were people on it or not, I sure hope not since it was headed west. After that light, I was traveling in a pack of cars that averaged about 30. There seem to be only about 1 to 6 people walking on the sidewalk in between lights. I didn't notice any groups tourists walking most I seen walking together was two people.

I noticed there was about 6 Homeless looking people sitting on and around a bench commiserating with each other. I noticed there was only two people standing directly in front watching The Fountains at the Bellagio. There was six or seven police cars that seemed to have someone pulled over at the entrance of The Venetian.
The Wynn Hotel had every entrance half barricaded with a security guard and police car with their lights going. I didn't notice any other casinos that had the police blocking the entrances like that.

As I kept going the sidewalks were still very sparse.

Further down near Circus Circus the traffic started bottlenecking a little bit now that the road was down to two lanes do the construction. There was still some Casino construction going on as well.

As I stopped at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara I noticed there was about 50 cars total waiting for the light to turn. That's where my Las Vegas Strip detour ended.

Quote: billryan

Take the unicycle. Great time to make a video.

I'm thinking about it. There is still a little too much traffic for me to feel comfortable with it.

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I'm thinking about it. There is still a little too much traffic for me to feel comfortable with it.

That's what sidewalks are for. There are very few people on the sidewalks.

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That's what sidewalks are for. There are very few people on the sidewalks.

Hmmm. I generally disapprove of that, but I think in Vegas I could file riding a unicycle anywhere under free entertainment.

Axel, thanks for taking the time to post your tour of the strip. It sounds like cars are still in force (though maybe only half as many) on the strip but people walking are almost non existent. Homeless people begging for money must be getting desperate.

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Yesterday around 3 p.m. , I was driving home from out near the M. I decided to take a detour home and drive the strip all the way to Sahara. I wanted to video it, but was driving solo. I made sure to pay attention closely. I didn't think anybody would be all that interested enough to start a new thread about it, but perhaps they are.

I made the same trip shortly after you in the opposite direction. Similar observations. The amount of cars felt like a typical slow time, especially on the north side, where they still have construction and lanes closed. Weird to see zero taxis or moving billboards. Lot of police cars sitting on the side with their lights on; they're probably like the rest of us, with nothing to do. Wanted to get out and walk, but no good place to park or pee. Oyo looked to be open, with a lot of cars in their parking lot. Possibly offering take-out from their restaurants, or just the only place to park on that end. Parked there and walked to Las Vegas Blvd and up past NY-NY, and that was it.