California law makers are under pressure to clamp down on the use of casino buses to ferry players to and from casinos around the area. This follows a crash at the weekend which ended with 5 casino players dead and many injured after a visit to their local casino. It looks as though the massive rise in casino attendances over the last 10 years has spawned a new and lucrative area of business, ferrying players from all around the area for a night at the casino.
It turns out that the bus crash earlier this week involved a vehicle which was not properly registered and there are concerns that there may well be a number of other vehicles in the same position. While there is no suggestion that the crash was anything but an accident it seems as though the authorities are more than a little concerned about the large scale emergence of these types of operations.
The lure of the casino has seen large scale trips from the rural areas of California into the centre to sample the high life. While overall revenues may be down it seems that numbers are staying fairly steady at US casinos but players are spending less on average.