Posted on 03/14/2019 11:51:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
probably a good idea but
$5.5 BILLION!????????????
its Screw the Damned Taxpayers Time, again!
Wall money right there. Besides, won’t lax be under water in 12 years or something?
We need one of those at the border. We’re simply not being invaded quick enough.
Nope. Global cooling is on the way, which means their beaches are going to grow.
No, no, no, it's gonna break off in the next big quake.
Does it connect to Disneyland?
Actually it could be a very good ide, absent graft (ROTFLMAO!). The Brits have something like it in London that works very well with Gatwick and Heathrow. For Gatwick you get on a nonstop train at Victoria Station and go directly to the airport. Then you go directly to security and thence, via people mover, to your terminal. It could be made really good by putting security at the three outlying stations and restricting certain cars to screened passengers only.
But AOC said we can’t have airports and planes and stuff anymore or we’ll all die.
There’s one of these boondoggles in Morgantown WV.
From wiki:
“Developed from the Alden staRRcar and built by a consortium led by Boeing Vertol, the driverless system was a government-funded experiment in PRT systems. Upon its opening in 1975 with three stations, it had a fitful start, being three years behind schedule and costing 3–4 times more than estimated.”
Read more at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit
This is nutso. LAX is a relatively small airport compared to the major hubs in the USA like ATL, JFK - even MSP is much bigger. The terminal area is in the shape of a U with 8 “gates” plus an international terminal between gates 3 and 4. One thing they really needed to do is run a tram around the secure side of the airport so people could do transfers without having to clear security. But that would be maybe 2 miles of track at most and there is plenty of room to add that on the secure side of the airport.
Sounds like they want a tram to bring people into the airport from the neighboring areas to alleviate the need for cars. There is currently a road that runs right through the center of the U. They do have some parking structures but they could build under or at the ground level. Wouldn’t be too much to run some track that way straight down Century Blvd.
But in a state where it costs $10 billion to NOT run a train from LA to SF, I suppose $5.5 billion for one that runs a few miles in and around the airport is a bargain.
I’m curious to know how much MSP paid to build their tram system.
The same amount requested for a wall with Mexico?
the price is ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS!
it is probably 0.5 Billion actual cost (at most) and
4.0 Billion in robbery, graft, corruption, kickbacks
I've flown Southwest from there multiple time last year. When my scheduled allowed it, I've flown into either John Wayne or Burbank to avoid LAX.
It looks like it will operate like the Phoenix Sky Harbor people mover. A six-minute YouTube video shows that installation:
You’re talking about Los Angeles. You want people to stop using cars? I travel through LAX a lot. It definitely could use a tram service. You are right LHR and CDG airports in Europe have trains from the city center right into the airport. That could work for some parts of L.A. but most of L.A. is nowhere near a “tube/metro” stop to make it anywhere near convenient. And the L.A. Metro system is small, and designed to shuttle people from downtown to Hollywood - nowhere near the airport. There is a train (not metro) line that runs out towards the airport but most people would have to make very distant transfers in the downtown area just to try to get on it. I don’t think that line runs to the airport though, just sort of in the direction.
And imagine the massive security line if they tried to clear passengers for all 9 terminals at one spot. I don’t think that is workable at LAX.
I think the main objective is to have an auxiliary pickup/dropoff point that is more convenient than having to drive onto the airport itself. Once you enter that loop with a car you have to make the whole drive around - and on the busiest days that could take 45 minutes for what maybe 2 miles of road? So better to just drop people off at an auxiliary lot and then shuttle them in on a tram. Because of the U shape I figure a tram could run from Century Blvd up the middle of the U with stops between terminals 1&8, 2&7, 3&6, and the last one for the International terminal as well as terminal 4&5 since they are adjacent. I am sure the hotels and car rental places along Century would like that tram, too.
You must be in government because you're missing $1 billion :-)
The Las Vegas Monorail cost 650 Million and is 4.4 Miles long.
Me thinks a whole lot of palms will be greased at LAX.
Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport’s automated people mover set for extension
Of course costs are much higher in California with required union labor, environmental permits, etc. I saw one estimate that 40 percent of a new home's cost are environmental and other regulations.
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