Rodriguez credits his father, an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. undocumented and worked as a union laborer, for encouraging him to become a carpenter.
The Red Rock Legacy Trail is designed to be built in phases, with the first phase extending five miles from residential neighborhoods at the north end of the trail.
The Las Vegas City Council has approved a negotiating agreement with a company that wants to build a 19-mile light rail or other high capacity mass transit line along Charleston Boulevard, one of the main east-west arterials in the Las Vegas Valley.
Brightline West, developer of the proposed $8-billion high-speed train between Southern California and Las Vegas—a project that has been on financial hold since last fall—now says the project is back on track.