The project is moving forward as financed. It's a terrorism campaign by the union attempting to force unionization. But I don't think they wanted to bring attention to the project. I think there are still too many unanswered questions, like the traffic study. An estimated 50 percent of The Venetian's hotel rooms are expected to be filled by conventioneers from Adelson's neighboring Sands convention center.
Nothing brings more traffic to town than the convention center.
Why don't we close down the convention center and we'll eliminate some of the traffic. Then, when we've closed down all of the hotels, all of the restaurants, we won't have any traffic. The main issue to be resolved is a shared driveway with Harrah's, said John Toth, chief of development services for Clark County. The current traffic study was written under the assumption that the driveway would be built and didn't provide specifics. The project has three points of entry with stop lights to the Venetian, but Toth said that without the driveway, there would be only two.