Casinos learn gamblers want the human touch

To the editor:

Congratulations to MGM Mirage officials for returning to poker dealers rather than staying with the touch-screen monitors. This will undoubtedly bring more gamblers to the floor. Abolishing the touch-screen and ticket-out and ticket-in machines needs to be the next step in favor of coin-in poker machines.

People who gamble want that human element put back into gaming. Removing the change ladies and men was a big mistake.

I have been selling retail items on the Strip for nine years and I have heard complaints from customers about the lack of change personnel on the floor. They state that casinos are cold and greedy.

W.J. Hinrichs

LAS VEGAS

Halfway train

To the editor:

There are two train proposals floating around for a Las Vegas-to-Southern California route.

The maglev train design goes all the way to the Los Angeles corridor via Anaheim.

The DesertXpress train would go halfway and end in Victorville.

Who wants to pay to ride the DesertXpress train and then have to pay for another mode of transportation to get you to your final destination somewhere in Southern California?

Or vice versa, paying to get to Victorville and then riding the DesertXpress to Las Vegas?

The DesertXpress train proposal is absolutely idiotic. This is the same type of thinking that doomed the Las Vegas Monorail. If they would have built the monorail all the way to McCarran International Airport like the people of Las Vegas suggested, it probably would not be in as bad of shape financially as it is.

The DesertXpress proposal is being backed by Sen. Harry Reid (June 10 Review-Journal).

This should show the people of Nevada how incompetent he is.

The DesertXpress train proposal would be another doomed project because, like Sen. Reid, it only goes halfway.

John Dawson

LAS VEGAS