A Face Lift for the Bellagio-Monte Carlo People Mover

The Bellagio-Monte Carlo People Mover in Las Vegas, Nevada has performed extremely well for the last six years in spite of the supplier's departure from the marketplace. Jakes Associates, Inc. took over all related issues and continued its solid support to our client who once more has come to us with a major and complex undertaking: oversight management of the relocation of the Bellagio station to the new Bellagio Spa Tower currently under design and construction. A 32-story, 947 guest room tower located west of the existing Bellagio garage will further enhance the extraordinary Bellagio experience, particularly with the addition and remodeling of the Spa facilities encompassing 41,000 sf and the addition of 170,000 sf of new Convention and Meeting Space. The People Mover system modification is a complex task as it involves a new station and maintenance facility design and construction requiring new guideway section fabrication, major reconfiguration of the belt and pinched drive system, and train control and software changes. Complexity is further increased by the prototypical nature of the system installation and because no similar technology expertise exists elsewhere. No company has utilized belt propulsion technology for the propulsion of Automated People Movers since 1962, when an installation at the Paris Expo was dismantled.