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Metro Pursues Public Opinion on Improving Public Transit to LAX

Sighs, "psshs" and "pffts" are among just some of the common sounds made and heard when the topic of public transportation enters conversation. While the city is tackling some major transit construction projects, including greenifying such ventures, the road ahead is long and steep (and we will likely need to drive). Even making the trek to LAX deems a heavy feat for some, depending on location. But Metro is examining ways to ease our troubled traveling minds.

Identifying different options for growing the Metro Rail system to LAX is the focus of the study, which encompasses a "four square mile area bounded by La Cienega Blvd on the east, Manchester Ave to the north, Imperial Highway to the south and the LAX airport terminals on the west."

Alternatives currently proposed include Light Rail Transit (LRT), Automated People Mover (APM) and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). Metro is analyzing these options in order to narrow down alternative choices before advancing them to the environmental review phase.

L.A.'s vision for improved service transit appears high on Metro's priority list, and they're hosting three community workshops on August 23, August 25 and August 30.

Strap on those thinking caps (or refer to your journal for various rant entries) on how a better connection to LAX might:

*Reduce traffic congestion and improve transportation options to and from the airport

*Best serve airport users and local employees

*Provide travelers with the level of transportation they expect when visiting a world-class city

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  • rpmcestmoi

    This is a no brainer, which should make it simple for politicians who fit the no brain criterion. Like Portland, rail directly to the airport. Em
    Nd of story.

    But the cab interests who have the "representatives of the people" in their pockets will probably killvthis again.

  • Whatever is built it has to coordinate with the LAX master
    plan. My thoughts are for a transit center terminal outside the airport where
    the Green Line, The Crenshaw Line, The extension to the South Bay to Long
    Beach, the Heavy Rail Metro Line to the Valley, a LRT line along Lincoln to
    Santa Monica and eventually to the West Valley through Rustic Canyon and Reseda
    Blvd and a people mover to serve all of the airline terminals. Maybe even
    airport security would be located there so once you entered the people mover
    you and your luggage are free to travel without having to deal with TSA security.
     

  • You left out connecting to the La Cienega Expo Line Station via a train down La Cienega, taking advantage of the highway portion that runs through the oil wells. (Though if car speeds are 55 mph, how fast could the train go uphill I wonder?)   

  • RandyCunningham

    The real reason to have the Green Line go all the way to LAX is because LAX has a huge work force that has to either drive or take the bus because of where the line stops now.  Sure - travelers will take it (but coming from downtown on the blue and transferring to the green makes it stupidly long when you're leaving for a flight - but there are so many workers there, it would ease up on parking, and reduce traffic.  LAX has to be one of the biggest employment zones in the county.

  • jennix

    Lobbies or not, it's inexcusable that one CANNOT get to or from the airport without using a car or bus. 

    It's a no brainer to put a rail down Lincoln to the end of the Expo line, under the airport with an LAX stop, and connecting to the Green line. But that would make sense, so I'm sure someone will be against it.

  • PicoPhreako69

    Inorite??
    Me, I'm just hoping to see the Green Line connect to LAX sometime within my lifetime.
    I'm not hopeful much, but still.... it'd be nice.

  • It's not Metro's fault. The airport parking lobbies are very strong. Even other cities like NYC and SF didn't get direct airport access on their transit systems until just a few years ago (You know, after existing for many decades without it...). But apparently you all think Los Angeles has always been the only city with this problem.

  • cygnihurley

    I don't care if this is the first city in the WORLD to connect it's rail system to its airport, I want it done. The Greenline shuttle is terrible and has left me stranded for over an hour, the driving situation into and out of at LAX is terrible, and the inability of Metro to act is terrible.

    I don't care who is lobying, or what they are doing. Get it done.

  • Aaron M.

    for starters, how about letting the Metro Shuttle Line 625 from the Green Line to LAX run on weekends and holidays when people travel the most.

  • Line 625 doesn't serve the terminals. Only the LAX Shuttle G serves the terminals directly from the Aviation Station.

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