Editing Needles, California (section)

==Infrastructure==
[[File:El Garces Hotel 4 12 2009 (cropped).JPG|thumb|[[El Garces Intermodal Transportation Facility|El Garcés Transportation Center]]]]

===Transportation===
[[Interstate 40]], known locally as the Needles Freeway, is the major highway through Needles, connecting [[Barstow, California|Barstow]] to the west and [[Arizona]] to the east. [[U.S. Route 95]] also enters the city from the east on former Route 66 as a [[concurrency (road)|concurrency]] with the I-40 freeway, then splits with the Interstate west of the city, and heads north to [[Nevada]]. The Colorado River Bridge connects Needles directly with [[Mohave County, Arizona]], and [[Arizona State Route 95]].

[[Amtrak]], the national passenger rail system, provides daily service to [[Needles (Amtrak station)|Needles station]], operating its [[Southwest Chief]] between [[Chicago]] and [[Los Angeles]]. It arrives between midnight and 2 am.

Local transit service to the Needles area is provided by [[Needles Area Transit]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/commuter/pub-transit.html |title=SANBAG: Public Transit |publisher=Sanbag.ca.gov |date=July 5, 2011 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106203215/http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/commuter/pub-transit.html |archive-date=November 6, 2011 }}</ref>

As of August 2, 2016, [[Victor Valley Transit Authority]] has service from Needles to Barstow and Victorville on Fridays. To Barstow and Victorville, the bus leaves at 6:15 and arrives at Victorville at 10:30 am. On the reverse trip, buses leave Victorville at 2:30 pm and arrives at Barstow at 7:15 pm.

Vegas Airporter provides service between [[Lake Havasu City, Arizona|Lake Havasu City]], Needles, and [[Harry Reid International Airport]] in [[Las Vegas]].<ref>{{Cite web| title = Pickup & Drop-off Locations – VegasAirporter.com| accessdate = February 6, 2021| url = https://vegasairporter.com/locations/}}</ref>

===Public safety ===
On July 1, 2016, [[San Bernardino County Fire Department]] annexed the City of Needles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sbcfire.org/default.aspx |title=San Bernardino County Fire Department |publisher=Sbcfire.org |access-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512142727/https://www.sbcfire.org/Default.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Fire Station 32 provides fire protection to the City of Needles and houses two Type 1 Engine companies, one Type 7 Engine company, one Water Tender and one 28-foot fireboat. The station is staffed full-time with career firefighters.

Since December 1989 the City of Needles has been patrolled by the [[San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department]] under the command of Captain Ross Tarangle from the Needles Patrol Station.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wp.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/patrol-stations/needles/ |title=San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department |publisher=wp.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/ |access-date=November 14, 2019}}</ref>

===Health===
Colorado Medical Center was once a full service hospital but at present it's functioning as an [[urgent care center]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofneedles.com/Hospitals.asp |title=City of Needles |publisher=City of Needles |date=June 28, 2002 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102140830/http://www.cityofneedles.com/Hospitals.asp |archive-date=January 2, 2012 }}</ref>