The Clark County Commission told county staffers to open the all-but-finished Lake Mead Boulevard interchange with the Las Vegas Beltway. Although some opponents objected, predicting death on the highway, this was really the only real option. What kind of government spends millions to build a freeway interchange and then leaves it unfinished? Only a lame one.”There’s every reason to open it; there’s only a few reasons not to open it,” said Commissioner Chip Maxfield. There was a hope to delay it until neighborhood traffic patterns got established, but “that hope has come to reality that we have a piece of infrastructure and the community wants it open.”"Once we go forward with the project, we have to open it to the public as soon as we possibly can,” added Commissioner Bruce Woodbury, for whom the Beltway is named.In other words, old people, get ready for more traffic!