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Light rail under LA airport terminal discouraged, other plans studied
And the public be d…d.
In Sydney, any ticket to the airport station cost about $ 10 more, than going further to the next station. Although, the airport did pay to build the station, I think , and the justification is to repay that cost.
Many airports probably make more from carparking than landing fees.
O’Hare is served by the L train’s Blue Line
Tell LAX Airport Authority to pound sand & just get it done. The other option take away a bus or bus routes & put rail on the surface then. I though passengers brought in revenue, so what’s wrong with an easier way to get their as at this time travel to this airport sucks.
Airport officials discourage light rail becasue they want people to pay for parking, one of their biggest sources of revenue, they should have no say over light rail construction.
Airport officials are not interested in funding the project because it does not bring in revenue. Why are we funding their expansion projects through our tax dollars? Where’s our revenue?
Duh! How much does the ‘Taxi Lobby’ spend on keeping any rail line from servicing LAX, IDL, LGA, EWK, Dulles, and O’Hare? Dunno, me. The taxi web-sites are all in Pashto, Farsi, Urdu, and/or Arabic.
Darn, Wayne, we Texans must think alike. Then again, I am not a native Texan and went to school at UCLA way back when. At that time the idiots who controlled the transit district wanted to build a subway along Wilshire Blvd. which would pass the LaBrea Tar Pits. They were shocked when the engineering studies found unstable tar sands on that part of the route and pulled the plug on the project. Tunnels under LAX will be through lots of sand which might be even less stable than sands soaked with tar. At one time a monorail system was proposed. Perhaps that should be revisited.
Cleveland’s airport is served by the RTA Red Line.
Elevated then?
There is a nice 3+ mile elevated computerized monobloc rail system at Newark International that connects all the terminals and parking lots with the NEC mainline. The Newark Airport rail station is the largest and busiest airport rail station in the USA. Over 150 NJ Transit and Amtrak trains stop here daily. There are now plans to extend the PATH subway system from Newark Penn Station to this Airport station.
Went to San Francisco and took the BART into the city from SFO, and that was sweet. A Monorail might be a better choice, but Southern Californians love their cars. But when I have to go to LAX, if I’m going on an early flight I’ll spend the night, maybe the hotels are behind some of the fight. (Because LAX owns Ontario airport, East of Los Angeles, it is cheaper to fly out of LAX with the hotel room included.)
Went to San Francisco and took the BART into the city from SFO, and that was sweet. A Monorail might be a better choice, but Southern Californians love their cars. But when I have to go to LAX, if I’m going on an early flight I’ll spend the night, maybe the hotels are behind some of the fight. (Because LAX owns Ontario airport, East of Los Angeles, it is cheaper to fly out of LAX with the hotel room included.)
Rail lines under the airport terminal aren’t a problem at London Heathrow, Amsterdam Schipol, Frankfurt, Zurich… What’s so different about LAX?
The Los Angeles airport benefits from the publicly funded roads that lead to it. Public policy is to increase transit use. The involved public agencies should make the airport grant direct transit access to its terminals in exchange for benefitting from the public road network.
Traveler convenience should rank right up there with revenue. LAX is in the dark ages – it is embarrassing that there is no rail connection to the terminals.
They can tunnel under Seattle but not LA
Once HSR links downtown LA to the rest of California, including other airports, I guess the need for decent transit to LAX will decrease, as those who prefer not to drive everywhere can just hop on a couple of trains that either go to their destinations, or to an airport that is served by proper transportation.
At that point, one presumes that they can start closing runways at LAX, and redevelop the land for housing or commercial purposes. Seems win-win to me, even if it’s not the intent of LAX’s oh-so-smart administration.
The Minneapolis Hiawatha line is tunneled under runways and terminal #1, with a station below I think the gold concorse, and comes above groound at terminal #2