It is called the massive UNIONs that have a stronghold of LA City Council, corruption, not to mention Democrats within Sacramento. Take out the unions, activists, politicians, and government bureaucracy that does nothing for the public good.
great step in the right direction! I've been to many airports in the world like Singapore, Japan, Seoul, etc. You literally will not see ANY traffic or whatsoever because they don't allow private cars into the airport. They use amazing public mass transit into airport. Less cars, the better. LA needs to invest more in SAFETY and MORE TRANSIT
LA will never get rid of private cars, but at least no shuttle vans will need to go into the horseshoe anymore and private cars can go in (uncongested) again.
This "people mover" was not built to provide a car free option. With the $2B+ construction costs most places in the world would have extended LA Metro in a tunnel directly to the airport with two stations near the terminals enabling connection of the K line (that as planed would have continued to Redondo Beach taking over this section of the C line) and the C line (that, as planed, will include the section from Norwalk to the airport). Instead they built the people mover which requires a change, with luggage, to the K or C adding extra time for and complexity to passengers. The real object of the people mover was to connect the reduce car congestion near the terminals by moving all car rentals to the new location outside the airport connected by the people mover and, as an afterthought, will stop just before the car rental building above LA Metro L and C lines. This means that all rides will require one change from the people mover to the metro and for most a second change from the K linw to the E line or from the C line to the A line.
This is people mover. It is airport internal transit system. About public transportation, we will be able to reach to Uranus before LA has good public transportation. LA has wasted a lot money to build you need cars to use trains. How about if you don't have cars? The trains lover will sabotage ypu
Great update to see how much progeess has been made all over LAX. I can't wait to see the testing start and watch the APM traverse the elevated roadway. I'm hoping the entire track will be illuminated along with the various stations and pedestrian bridges. LAX is going to look so different and amazing at night.
Okay...listen up. Until the preparations for the improvements began for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics began, LAX was a "one-storey" airport. Construction on the upper deck and multiple parking structures were underway in the very early 80s. A very dear memory I have of my dad, we dropped someone off at the airport and then a very uncharacteristic activity of him, we made our way into the construction site (at night) to look around. It wasn't until the Olympics occurred that it all made sense to me; he read the paper every day so he probably knew. It was fun, thanks pop! This idea of the people mover is just one more cog in the wheel.
Glad to see major American airports finally catching up to the rest of the world! But other ones like Houston intercontinental still just have a city bus at best connecting them to the rest of the city!
This is people mover inside airports. LA public transportation maybe better than Houston. However, it's grade is below F. You need cars to use trains. If you don't have cars n want to reach destinations by train stations, taking buses is faster. See LA rails screw up people who don't drive
@@MeMeDaVinci Yes, but the difference is San Diego's airport is already located in a central part of the city. Bush airport is 20 miles from downtown Houston.
Yep, but the reason LA didn't have this was largely because LA didn't have public rail passenger trains until about 25 years ago. Prior to the 1990s, passenger trains were practically nonexistent in LA. In the last 30 years though LA has made great strides in building out an extensive network--among the largest in the U.S. now.
Yesterday's transportation, today! Actually, this is exciting. L.A. will finally have a world class airport. The PeopleMover will be a real game changer. People will be able to be picked up or dropped off in many locations. This should help traffic flow and make it easier to arrive and depart from LAX.
If/when the Metro C Line extends to the Norwalk Metrolink station, it would provide a one-seat ride between two Metrolink lines (OC and 91) and LAX. That would be huge for OC, though I’m not sure it’d be faster than driving, at least until the car gets caught up in LAX traffic.
Also, if they actually extended the West Santa Ana Branch to Santa Ana and then built a junction with the C line. Either that, or they could do an A line spur across Long Beach on the disused ROW and then go out the 22 freeway corridor into OC after serving CSULB@@ChrisJones-gx7fc
@@TomCook1993 not if you’re flying international, plus LAX has more domestic flight options than SNA. Obviously most living in OC would fly in/out of SNA, but if one wants to fly somewhere not available from SNA, then they have to choose Long Beach or LAX. Having a convenient transit option between OC and LAX via just one transfer between Metrolink and Metro would be a game changer, especially since it means not having to drive to/from LAX and deal with traffic. The C Line extension to Norwalk Metrolink should be a higher priority, maybe even include it in the 2028 plan. It would more so benefit OC though, not LA, which is maybe why it isn’t a higher priority for LA Metro.
OC county and OC cities would have to invest in that. LA is looking to invest in LA itself. LA has a lot of problems to address before they even think about doing anything with snobby OC.
In Africa we have trains from airport straight to downtown since decades ago. LA needs to upgrade its transportation. Btw baggage carts are free in most airports except in LA 8 usd lol
@@danmur2797 no excuses. The city leaders don't know how to build a city for the people. In Algiers we have metro lines and tramways almost free. Trains available all the time it's a big city too
@@moexus You do realize that a lot of the people who originally designed the city almost 100 years ago are no longer alive? The city leaders today are playing catchup to build out the public rail metro network. In less than 23 years Los Angeles now has the 3rd most extensive public rail metro in the U.S. next to NYC and Chicago.
Everytime Ive gotten to the horseshoe at LAX over the last 5 years or so, traffic gas been horrendous, taking 45 mins or more just to get to Tom Bradley. Hoping this alleviates traffic there significantly.
Despite all the renovation, this airport still is mediocre compared to Seoul, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore. All they have done at LAX is a patch job
I now fly out of ONTARIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Southern California instead of LAX. There is no need for me to commute to LAX for my domestic and international flights. I've flown to Hawaii from Ontario and I recently flew to Thailand from Ontario airport on China Airlines! I live just 15 minutes from the Ontario airport and I hope more airlines fly in and out of this airport especially more international carriers.
Ontario is the airstrip Howard Hughes wanted to use as the main flight hub for the Los Angeles area. The powers that be thought he was crazy and kept LAX as the main airport. He was WAY ahead of his time.
@@Adumzzinthehouse - Mega Hub means Mega Headache! Not everyone lives in the Los Angeles area so it's a pain in the ass to commute over an hour to get to LAX especially during rush hour traffic!
I hope they connect the peoplemover up to the Inglewood peoplemover. They'll probably put in some hotels and an entertainment district by the stadiums, so that way you could get a local peoplemover service. The K-line, unfortunately, isn't a straight shot into downtown, and they really missed an opportunity to connect to Union station directly either with an E-K flyover or by extending metrolink down the now disused slauson corridor to the Harbor subdivision or redeveloping the Slauson corridor as light rail.
Good step in the right direction, but capacity is still going to be a nightmare. From the renderings, it looks like there will only be 2-3 cars per train, which is very small for an airport the size of LAX. If you're leaving LAX on the people mover, passengers from Terminals 1 and 7 will especially be screwed. As the last stop in the horseshoe, the trains will already be so packed by the time it reaches them, so good luck trying to get a spot on the train. Frequency will have to be consistently at least every 90 seconds to make up for that.
In Germany, I would board a train to the airport, get off the train, go up an escalator and be at the ticket counter. It was so convenient. I'm skeptical about the "people mover" design. How easy will it be to change from the train to the people mover with kids and luggage in tow? How far will we have to go from where the people mover drops us off to get to the security gate at the terminal?
Well yeah, but LA didn't really have public transit passenger trains until about 30 years ago. It was a dream to have public rail service in 1990. Most of the current network has only been built in the last 15 years. So LA is now coming around full circle with this. Not bad at all considering LA now has the 3rd most extensive public rail passenger service network in the U.S. behind NYC and Chicago.
LAX not having a people mover between terminals is the sole reason I refuse to fly in and out of LAX when I visit Los Angeles preferring to fly into Ontario or San Diego for my trips.
The result is ridiculous. This smells very much like corruption. Where did the money go? THAT should be the topic of the news. And also.. no.. other countries purchase speed trains, build much bigger airports and build small tunnels for such money. And I'm talking first world countries. Again.. I'd look into this LA project as a corruption case. @@joetrey215
Umm have you seen the fiasco that the German brandenburg airport got or the Charles de Gaulle transformation or the whole big media campaign that the new Istanbul terminal did? In fact I’d say the LAX transformation isn’t covered enough. It’s easy to hate but hard to love. Don’t give opinions on topics you don’t know much about. The difference is night and day with the entire airport going a significant transformation and now ranking among some of the best in the world(new skytrax rankings).
The peoplemover will help with trips on airport grounds and parking garages, and keep shuttles away from the loop, but the Metro connection to the airport is a complete disaster. For this major airport to have to change trains TWICE with your luggage to reach downtown LA (people mover to K line to E line) is a serious design flaw. Clearly designed by people who drive cars only. Plus for the transfer from the K to the E line you need to come up from an underground station, cross the street and then walk to a surface stop, which is a 3-4 minute walk. No one with a lot of luggage will take the Metro system from the airport. They could have looked at European airports (or even Chicago or Atlanta) where train and subway stations are on airport grounds and it's a one seat ride to the downtown area. Even New York is better than LA: from the New York area airports you only need to transfer once to reach downtown/midtown Manhattan. Which is still not great but better than LA.
People need to ask themselves, as Taxpaers do we really want to go to LA anyway? Furthest west most Americans wants to fly out of is Denver or Las Vegas. There really is no point to LA except being a regional airport for Cali when Denver can do international flights
Lots going on. People mover, new car rentalcenter, new metro, new terminal 3 and t3 to Tom Bradley connector, new concourse, new buildings between t2 and3 and t4 and 5, will be new terminal 0 next to t1 and t9 across Sepulveda. In other countries they just build new bigger airports in the ocean or on farmland but LA is built out so much you can only build new in Lancaster or Barstow. No one wants to pick someone up from so far away so we're stuck fixing up an existing one. I wonder if people will start saying pick me up at the people mover ITF east station Orr drop me off at expo Crenshaw k line station ill take Metro the rest of the way. I used to tell people to pick me up at gold line or union Station as I took the flyaway bus. Just easier
Metro is NOT connecting directly to the airport. Customers will have to transfer from the Metro K line to the airport People Mover. A direct connection MEANS the K line would serve one or more of the terminals directly inside the airport. Seamlessly.
It would have been nice, but not a big deal. In fact practically immaterial. The people mover serves the same purpose, and all it requires is a simple transfer. If you've gone through several airports this far, its not a big task. NYC, the U.S. city with the best public transit system by rail doesn't have that either. The best connected airport in the region--JFK, has a people mover that drops of passengers from the airport at the city's Jamaica metro station, and there you then transfer to any line available there to get you to Manhattan.
@ecoRfan Not sure what you mean by 4 seat ride, but people movers are usually akin to a train car with many seats. It then arrives at a metro station where one can transfer into the metro system. The trains should be typical of any major metro network which means many seats and they go to downtown through several lines.
@@danmur2797 I mean it takes 4 trains including the peoplemover to get to Union Station. 3 trains if you don’t count the peoplemover, and can get to some of downtown without needing to get to Union Station. Even at that, can get a one seat ride to downtown Atlanta from ATL airport. Denver also has a one seat ride airport to downtown.
@ecoRfan I think the important part is it gets you on the Metro that connects to all other lines in the LA metro area. Most people will likely not need to stop at Union Station unless you live downtown, or points north or east. Yeah it's not ideal there isn't a direct line to Union Station, but then LA is a multi polar city with many centers. Some people live (or visit) in the South Bay or Westside, or south LA. And there are several stations around this large area immediately north of LAX. There's been a lot of construction plans on the board though.
Who knows if passengers will be able to use the trains once they are completed. Removal of homeless encampments on board the trains will be challenging.
will the homeless be restricted from sleeping on the trains? can't even get on the Gold Line without sparring with transients. will 30 billion be a bust because travelers won't use the new transportation system because no where is safe on public transportation in Los Angeles?
All these important changes coming to LAX but when you drive by the new structures, there's nobody working! So who is going to finish all this work? And when? 2030? 2040? Get up off your butts and finish it!
It's still ridiculous that you need to transfer from the metro to a different train to get to the terminals. I love SFO because the BART station is literally AT THE TERMINAL. If I need to transfer to other terminals, yes I have to use their people mover which is one escalator flight up, but if I am flying out of the international terminal I can step out of the BART station directly into the terminal. Bam. One and done. Why did LA settle for this?
Say what? You're going back 40 years. There were many improvements done way back then too, if you check the history of the airport. What airport in the country finished their improvements 40 years ago and just finished? There will always be construction at this airport, and others. I'm not going to get into politics. but this airport has always had to deal with decisions made in the 1940's and 50's. What was thought to be so much space ended up not being enough by a lot.
Where I write "Okay...listen up." Read that one and learn. Do your research before you write something that identifies how ignorant you are. Just saying ..
Never went to Disneyland in the early days, didja? Also, how is "people mover" NOT calling it what it is? How are words like "tram" or "trolley" _better_ at conveying what this things does?
I loved how the reporter was standing on the new parking structure pointing to the people mover, a building across the street and two stories up. You need to love LA's artsy/pretty instead of practical/useful philosophy. Another couple million dollars wasted.
Look closely and you'll see an APM station level pedestrian bridge that's connected to the parking structure. The parking has an elevator, or you can simply drop people off or pick them up on the level of the bridge.
I’m SO READY for it! Can’t wait! They also reallllyy need to get their acts together for the immigrations check line for international arrivals. 8 immigrations officers checking passports for 500 passengers crowded in a lobby? Really? You expect this to work for the Olympic Games when it gets here?
Can't believe it took until 2024 for LA to have a train to the airport. City is playing so much catch up to the modern world.
It is called politics and $$$$ Laundering.
That's the past. It's moot at this point. It's about the future.
It is called the massive UNIONs that have a stronghold of LA City Council, corruption, not to mention Democrats within Sacramento. Take out the unions, activists, politicians, and government bureaucracy that does nothing for the public good.
Never underestimate the former power of the Taxi industry.
Where IS "the modern world," if not the place that creates the images the world spends it's time looking at?
great step in the right direction! I've been to many airports in the world like Singapore, Japan, Seoul, etc. You literally will not see ANY traffic or whatsoever because they don't allow private cars into the airport. They use amazing public mass transit into airport. Less cars, the better. LA needs to invest more in SAFETY and MORE TRANSIT
LA will never get rid of private cars, but at least no shuttle vans will need to go into the horseshoe anymore and private cars can go in (uncongested) again.
This "people mover" was not built to provide a car free option. With the $2B+ construction costs most places in the world would have extended LA Metro in a tunnel directly to the airport with two stations near the terminals enabling connection of the K line (that as planed would have continued to Redondo Beach taking over this section of the C line) and the C line (that, as planed, will include the section from Norwalk to the airport). Instead they built the people mover which requires a change, with luggage, to the K or C adding extra time for and complexity to passengers. The real object of the people mover was to connect the reduce car congestion near the terminals by moving all car rentals to the new location outside the airport connected by the people mover and, as an afterthought, will stop just before the car rental building above LA Metro L and C lines. This means that all rides will require one change from the people mover to the metro and for most a second change from the K linw to the E line or from the C line to the A line.
This is people mover. It is airport internal transit system.
About public transportation, we will be able to reach to Uranus before LA has good public transportation.
LA has wasted a lot money to build you need cars to use trains.
How about if you don't have cars?
The trains lover will sabotage ypu
Great update to see how much progeess has been made all over LAX. I can't wait to see the testing start and watch the APM traverse the elevated roadway. I'm hoping the entire track will be illuminated along with the various stations and pedestrian bridges. LAX is going to look so different and amazing at night.
Okay...listen up. Until the preparations for the improvements began for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics began, LAX was a "one-storey" airport. Construction on the upper deck and multiple parking structures were underway in the very early 80s. A very dear memory I have of my dad, we dropped someone off at the airport and then a very uncharacteristic activity of him, we made our way into the construction site (at night) to look around. It wasn't until the Olympics occurred that it all made sense to me; he read the paper every day so he probably knew. It was fun, thanks pop! This idea of the people mover is just one more cog in the wheel.
The TBIT was built during this time too.
@@mrxman581 ...finished in 84. Previous to the Tom Bradley, international flights used Terminal 2, which was built in 1962.
Glad to see major American airports finally catching up to the rest of the world! But other ones like Houston intercontinental still just have a city bus at best connecting them to the rest of the city!
As does San Diego.
This is people mover inside airports.
LA public transportation maybe better than Houston. However, it's grade is below F.
You need cars to use trains.
If you don't have cars n want to reach destinations by train stations, taking buses is faster.
See LA rails screw up people who don't drive
@@MeMeDaVinci Yes, but the difference is San Diego's airport is already located in a central part of the city. Bush airport is 20 miles from downtown Houston.
This is standard in other countries, and its good to see LA finally catching up to the rest of the world
Yep, but the reason LA didn't have this was largely because LA didn't have public rail passenger trains until about 25 years ago.
Prior to the 1990s, passenger trains were practically nonexistent in LA.
In the last 30 years though LA has made great strides in building out an extensive network--among the largest in the U.S. now.
Well catching up to Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and Oakland.
@@afroabroadActually, surpassing them.
@@mrxman581 I kinda meant airport connectivity to transit. Not other factors. 🤣
@@danmur2797 You just proved his point even more!
Hopefully this will be the beginning of a new era for LAX.
I'm excited. Of course, if it happened 35 years ago it would have been even better!
Even GTA Online had a metro station AT the airport…
Yesterday's transportation, today! Actually, this is exciting. L.A. will finally have a world class airport. The PeopleMover will be a real game changer. People will be able to be picked up or dropped off in many locations. This should help traffic flow and make it easier to arrive and depart from LAX.
Now if only MTA and OCTA could connect so I can save that $60-80+ ride share one way fare to and from LAX-OC
If/when the Metro C Line extends to the Norwalk Metrolink station, it would provide a one-seat ride between two Metrolink lines (OC and 91) and LAX. That would be huge for OC, though I’m not sure it’d be faster than driving, at least until the car gets caught up in LAX traffic.
Also, if they actually extended the West Santa Ana Branch to Santa Ana and then built a junction with the C line. Either that, or they could do an A line spur across Long Beach on the disused ROW and then go out the 22 freeway corridor into OC after serving CSULB@@ChrisJones-gx7fc
Just fly out of SNA 😂
@@TomCook1993 not if you’re flying international, plus LAX has more domestic flight options than SNA.
Obviously most living in OC would fly in/out of SNA, but if one wants to fly somewhere not available from SNA, then they have to choose Long Beach or LAX. Having a convenient transit option between OC and LAX via just one transfer between Metrolink and Metro would be a game changer, especially since it means not having to drive to/from LAX and deal with traffic.
The C Line extension to Norwalk Metrolink should be a higher priority, maybe even include it in the 2028 plan. It would more so benefit OC though, not LA, which is maybe why it isn’t a higher priority for LA Metro.
OC county and OC cities would have to invest in that. LA is looking to invest in LA itself. LA has a lot of problems to address before they even think about doing anything with snobby OC.
In Africa we have trains from airport straight to downtown since decades ago. LA needs to upgrade its transportation. Btw baggage carts are free in most airports except in LA 8 usd lol
Because LA didn't have any public transit passenger trains until the 1990s. And it wasn't very extensive until the last 15 years or so.
@@danmur2797 no excuses. The city leaders don't know how to build a city for the people. In Algiers we have metro lines and tramways almost free. Trains available all the time it's a big city too
@@eastpark4864 i am from Africa
@@moexus You do realize that a lot of the people who originally designed the city almost 100 years ago are no longer alive?
The city leaders today are playing catchup to build out the public rail metro network.
In less than 23 years Los Angeles now has the 3rd most extensive public rail metro in the U.S. next to NYC and Chicago.
Everytime Ive gotten to the horseshoe at LAX over the last 5 years or so, traffic gas been horrendous, taking 45 mins or more just to get to Tom Bradley. Hoping this alleviates traffic there significantly.
It's going to take 45 minutes to get you there anyways. This is not that much of a time saver as you think.
As a local I agree
Finally!
Despite all the renovation, this airport still is mediocre compared to Seoul, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore. All they have done at LAX is a patch job
good news😊
Disneyland abandoned its PeopleMover, but LA is bringing it back!
Great! 👏
I now fly out of ONTARIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Southern California instead of LAX. There is no need for me to commute to LAX for my domestic and international flights. I've flown to Hawaii from Ontario and I recently flew to Thailand from Ontario airport on China Airlines! I live just 15 minutes from the Ontario airport and I hope more airlines fly in and out of this airport especially more international carriers.
Ontario is the airstrip Howard Hughes wanted to use as the main flight hub for the Los Angeles area. The powers that be thought he was crazy and kept LAX as the main airport. He was WAY ahead of his time.
Not many international carriers will go to Ontario when there’s a mega hub nearby
@@Adumzzinthehouse - Mega Hub means Mega Headache! Not everyone lives in the Los Angeles area so it's a pain in the ass to commute over an hour to get to LAX especially during rush hour traffic!
@@kevinp8108 The airlines don’t care about which airport gives people the biggest headache, they care about if it gives them $$$$
I hope they connect the peoplemover up to the Inglewood peoplemover. They'll probably put in some hotels and an entertainment district by the stadiums, so that way you could get a local peoplemover service. The K-line, unfortunately, isn't a straight shot into downtown, and they really missed an opportunity to connect to Union station directly either with an E-K flyover or by extending metrolink down the now disused slauson corridor to the Harbor subdivision or redeveloping the Slauson corridor as light rail.
Finally...Which it had been transformed 15yrs ago. Was at LAX hotel a year ago...Could see it was coming together.
Gonna be great.
Finally an appropriate place to start California's high speed rail 😅.
Good step in the right direction, but capacity is still going to be a nightmare. From the renderings, it looks like there will only be 2-3 cars per train, which is very small for an airport the size of LAX. If you're leaving LAX on the people mover, passengers from Terminals 1 and 7 will especially be screwed. As the last stop in the horseshoe, the trains will already be so packed by the time it reaches them, so good luck trying to get a spot on the train. Frequency will have to be consistently at least every 90 seconds to make up for that.
Out of curosity.. why was it taking so long for the change?
Hallelujah 🙌🏼
ReLAX, we’re renovating!
In Germany, I would board a train to the airport, get off the train, go up an escalator and be at the ticket counter. It was so convenient. I'm skeptical about the "people mover" design.
How easy will it be to change from the train to the people mover with kids and luggage in tow?
How far will we have to go from where the people mover drops us off to get to the security gate at the terminal?
So behind the time and even other US cities. Cutest anchor!!
So the high speed train of 100b is too much but 30b on one airport is ok?
About dar# time! LAX is soooo behind the times (compared to other international airports).
That's the past. It's moot at this point. It's about the future.
Well yeah, but LA didn't really have public transit passenger trains until about 30 years ago. It was a dream to have public rail service in 1990.
Most of the current network has only been built in the last 15 years. So LA is now coming around full circle with this.
Not bad at all considering LA now has the 3rd most extensive public rail passenger service network in the U.S. behind NYC and Chicago.
Lax is now among the worlds best airports according to the new skytrax rankings top 100
it;s called LOST TIME WASTED@@mrxman581
I work there and nobody seems to talk about the elephant in the room........ HOMELESS PEOPLE!! They practically run and rule the airport.
The worst traffic jam ever airport 😞
finally joining the first world
Do we need to pay to ride the people mover?
LAX not having a people mover between terminals is the sole reason I refuse to fly in and out of LAX when I visit Los Angeles preferring to fly into Ontario or San Diego for my trips.
THIS little change to the better would not even get media coverage in most other advanced countries. And they would especially NOT call it "MASSIVE".
Pretty sure $30 billion is significant everywhere.
The result is ridiculous. This smells very much like corruption. Where did the money go? THAT should be the topic of the news. And also.. no.. other countries purchase speed trains, build much bigger airports and build small tunnels for such money. And I'm talking first world countries. Again.. I'd look into this LA project as a corruption case. @@joetrey215
Umm have you seen the fiasco that the German brandenburg airport got or the Charles de Gaulle transformation or the whole big media campaign that the new Istanbul terminal did? In fact I’d say the LAX transformation isn’t covered enough. It’s easy to hate but hard to love. Don’t give opinions on topics you don’t know much about. The difference is night and day with the entire airport going a significant transformation and now ranking among some of the best in the world(new skytrax rankings).
30 Billion???? Have we lost our minds??? I wonder how much is paid to bureaucracy.......
At 2:26 are those two rats moving around in the background?? 😳
The peoplemover will help with trips on airport grounds and parking garages, and keep shuttles away from the loop, but the Metro connection to the airport is a complete disaster. For this major airport to have to change trains TWICE with your luggage to reach downtown LA (people mover to K line to E line) is a serious design flaw. Clearly designed by people who drive cars only. Plus for the transfer from the K to the E line you need to come up from an underground station, cross the street and then walk to a surface stop, which is a 3-4 minute walk. No one with a lot of luggage will take the Metro system from the airport.
They could have looked at European airports (or even Chicago or Atlanta) where train and subway stations are on airport grounds and it's a one seat ride to the downtown area.
Even New York is better than LA: from the New York area airports you only need to transfer once to reach downtown/midtown Manhattan. Which is still not great but better than LA.
People need to ask themselves, as Taxpaers do we really want to go to LA anyway? Furthest west most Americans wants to fly out of is Denver or Las Vegas. There really is no point to LA except being a regional airport for Cali when Denver can do international flights
American airports are always 20-30 yrs behind
Lots going on. People mover, new car rentalcenter, new metro, new terminal 3 and t3 to Tom Bradley connector, new concourse, new buildings between t2 and3 and t4 and 5, will be new terminal 0 next to t1 and t9 across Sepulveda. In other countries they just build new bigger airports in the ocean or on farmland but LA is built out so much you can only build new in Lancaster or Barstow. No one wants to pick someone up from so far away so we're stuck fixing up an existing one.
I wonder if people will start saying pick me up at the people mover ITF east station Orr drop me off at expo Crenshaw k line station ill take Metro the rest of the way.
I used to tell people to pick me up at gold line or union Station as I took the flyaway bus. Just easier
Now if only we could renovate Skid Row
lets be fair, every state has their own skid row, even Florida and Arizona :D
Like Paris and JFK
The project will open in February 2025.
wow SO LATE, I'LL TAKE LONG BEACH AIRPORT ANYTIME
they only did it cuz its going to be even more packed come the World cup in 2 years
Wow, I never knew LAX was so outdated in its infrastructure. Sad.
That's the past. It's moot at this point. It's about the future.
make up the lost time, we lost interest today@@mrxman581
I stopped using LAX several years ago due to the massive crowding and confusion. I doubt this remodel will make me return.
Good. We need more people to think like you do. It'll leave more room for the rest of us.
@@mykalimba😂😂
TAKE LB airport OVER THIS MASSIVE JUNK@@mykalimba
We avoid LAX at all costs…..especially given the construction MESS on the roads…
Metro is NOT connecting directly to the airport. Customers will have to transfer from the Metro K line to the airport People Mover. A direct connection MEANS the K line would serve one or more of the terminals directly inside the airport. Seamlessly.
It would have been nice, but not a big deal. In fact practically immaterial.
The people mover serves the same purpose, and all it requires is a simple transfer. If you've gone through several airports this far, its not a big task.
NYC, the U.S. city with the best public transit system by rail doesn't have that either. The best connected airport in the region--JFK, has a people mover that drops of passengers from the airport at the city's Jamaica metro station, and there you then transfer to any line available there to get you to Manhattan.
Including the Peoplemover, it’s a 4 seat ride to get downtown. Yikes. Not in line with major most world cities. Lot of room for improvement.
@ecoRfan Not sure what you mean by 4 seat ride, but people movers are usually akin to a train car with many seats.
It then arrives at a metro station where one can transfer into the metro system. The trains should be typical of any major metro network which means many seats and they go to downtown through several lines.
@@danmur2797 I mean it takes 4 trains including the peoplemover to get to Union Station. 3 trains if you don’t count the peoplemover, and can get to some of downtown without needing to get to Union Station. Even at that, can get a one seat ride to downtown Atlanta from ATL airport. Denver also has a one seat ride airport to downtown.
@ecoRfan I think the important part is it gets you on the Metro that connects to all other lines in the LA metro area. Most people will likely not need to stop at Union Station unless you live downtown, or points north or east.
Yeah it's not ideal there isn't a direct line to Union Station, but then LA is a multi polar city with many centers. Some people live (or visit) in the South Bay or Westside, or south LA. And there are several stations around this large area immediately north of LAX.
There's been a lot of construction plans on the board though.
Every airport in the world has a train between terminals. Why did it take LAX this long. What a waste
Sorry this train isn't going to be between terminals.
Pathetic that it's taken so long.
SINCE 1990, wasted lost time
Who knows if passengers will be able to use the trains once they are completed. Removal of homeless encampments on board the trains will be challenging.
Get ready for the train to be filled with homeless and meth smoke
will the homeless be restricted from sleeping on the trains? can't even get on the Gold Line without sparring with transients. will 30 billion be a bust because travelers won't use the new transportation system because no where is safe on public transportation in Los Angeles?
All these important changes coming to LAX but when you drive by the new structures, there's nobody working! So who is going to finish all this work? And when? 2030? 2040? Get up off your butts and finish it!
LAX is such a dump. I have seen much better airports in developing countries
It's still ridiculous that you need to transfer from the metro to a different train to get to the terminals. I love SFO because the BART station is literally AT THE TERMINAL. If I need to transfer to other terminals, yes I have to use their people mover which is one escalator flight up, but if I am flying out of the international terminal I can step out of the BART station directly into the terminal. Bam. One and done. Why did LA settle for this?
Worst designed airport I've ever used.
Finally
That was supposed to to be done for the 1984 Olympics Little late democrats
Needed the $$$$
Say what? You're going back 40 years. There were many improvements done way back then too, if you check the history of the airport. What airport in the country finished their improvements 40 years ago and just finished? There will always be construction at this airport, and others. I'm not going to get into politics. but this airport has always had to deal with decisions made in the 1940's and 50's. What was thought to be so much space ended up not being enough by a lot.
Hahaha...you know nothing troll. It was never meant to be ready for 84 Olympics.
Name a Republican that got a project done on time and under budget. I can wait.
Where I write "Okay...listen up." Read that one and learn. Do your research before you write something that identifies how ignorant you are. Just saying ..
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Found the person passed over for the interim CEO position...
A new place to get robbed and house the homeless
This is money well spent. Not the Bullet train that has yet to be finished.
Both are fantastic projects! And California will have, not just one HSR route, but TWO! YES!
People Mover 😂 more like additional homeless housing
Stupid name for a tram or trolley, “the people mover.” Sounds like “pregnant people.” Call it what it is.
Never went to Disneyland in the early days, didja? Also, how is "people mover" NOT calling it what it is? How are words like "tram" or "trolley" _better_ at conveying what this things does?
Ok, it's the Automated People Mover. Better? 😂😂😂
There's a reason Disneyland got rid of the people mover, too many idiots and their shenanigans.
its a ride in Disneyland that abandoned it
slick looking new homes for the homeless.
You're delusional thinking airport security will allow them on those stations
I loved how the reporter was standing on the new parking structure pointing to the people mover, a building across the street and two stories up. You need to love LA's artsy/pretty instead of practical/useful philosophy. Another couple million dollars wasted.
How is it not practical?
@@mwizkid1 it made it more complicated to board and deboard LAX and it will take more time now.
@@MiteshDamaniaThat makes no sense. This project is about improving getting into and out of LAX. It has nothing to do with actually boarding a plane.
Look closely and you'll see an APM station level pedestrian bridge that's connected to the parking structure. The parking has an elevator, or you can simply drop people off or pick them up on the level of the bridge.
@@mrxman581 nothing to do with boarding? I guess I am going sailing.
What a waste of MONEY!!! Over budget and delayed! Waste waste waste
Great now more homeless in the lax area 😂
I’m SO READY for it! Can’t wait!
They also reallllyy need to get their acts together for the immigrations check line for international arrivals. 8 immigrations officers checking passports for 500 passengers crowded in a lobby? Really? You expect this to work for the Olympic Games when it gets here?