New sidewalks ramps are coming to older neighborhoods of Las Vegas.

The city of Las Vegas has started installing new ramps in two residential areas in an effort to improve the quality of life for people living in that part of the community.

The first area is bounded by Decatur Boulevard, Meadows Lane, Valley View and Charleston boulevards.

The second area is farther east and is bounded by Marion Drive, Charleston Boulevard, Stewart Avenue and the Las Vegas Wash.

The 150 new ramps will improve the look of the neighborhoods and make the areas compliant with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Crews will also be upgrading 25 existing ramps.

The city is using in-house construction staff to complete the work over the next five months. 

The Regional Transportation Commission wants to hear what people living in the central part of the Las Vegas valley have to say about getting around in the area.

The RTC is asking people who live and work in the 28-square-miles around the Bonneville Transit Center, which is near Bonneville Avenue and Main Street about how to improve transportation.

Officials want to know what peoples concerns are about walking, bicycling and public transportation. They are looking for specific details about problems, including barriers like neighborhood walls, street lights and crosswalks.

They also want to know any improvements they need to make to the transit center, which is the valley's transportation hub.

The survey will be available online at 5 p.m. December 14. The final results of the survey are set to be presented to the RTC April 2013.

The RTC will also host two public meetings about transportation issues in the area:

Work on a pedestrian bridge will shut down a stretch of Nellis Boulevard on Thursday evening.

Between Charleston Boulevard and Mohave Avenue, Nellis will be closed from 9 p.m. Thursday to 5:30 a.m. Friday during work on a new concrete deck for the bridge. Traffic will be detoured around the area during construction.

Nighttime work relating to the pedestrian bridge deck construction will continue through September, and is expected to cause intermittent closures on Nellis in this area.

The pedestrian bridge at Nellis is part of the new Las Vegas Wash Trail Project running approximately three miles along the Las Vegas Wash at Charleston, through the Desert Rose Golf Course to Sloan Lane and connecting with the Flamingo-Arroyo Trail and Clark County Wetlands Park.