Cheyenne Ave

Cheyenne Avenue is the primary east-west arterial through the heart of North Las Vegas — running from the western valley through the city’s residential and commercial core toward Nellis Air Force Base. It’s the road North Las Vegas residents use for virtually every cross-city trip. The road was designed for lower volumes than it currently carries, and North Las Vegas’s rapid growth has converted it from a local collector road into a de facto regional arterial without corresponding infrastructure upgrades.

The crash trend on Cheyenne Avenue is one of the most dramatic improvements in the dataset: 332 in 2022, 270 in 2023, 196 in 2024 — a 41% reduction in two years. Four fatalities spread across three years (1, 2, 1). This level of improvement on a busy North Las Vegas arterial, in a city that otherwise shows consistent worsening, suggests a targeted intervention generating real results. Identifying and replicating what drove this improvement across other NLV corridors would be valuable.