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Officials Break Ground On $5.5 Billion People Mover At LAX
cbs2la ^ | March 14, 2019 at 11:28 am

Posted on 03/14/2019 11:51:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The trains will stop at three stations inside the terminal loop and three outside that includes a Metro station, stitching public transit with air travel. Officials are hoping the new transportation system will reduce congestion in and around the airport, which was recently named the fourth busiest in the world.

The project will cost $5.5 billion and will be paid for with both private and public funds. It’s also expected to bring 2,000 jobs to the area.

The people mover is scheduled to be completed in 2023.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; lax; peoplemover
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To: BenLurkin

That means $8B and finished in 2029.


21 posted on 03/14/2019 1:01:27 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: BenLurkin

My guess is that it will be over 10 billion before it’s done.


22 posted on 03/14/2019 1:02:02 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: monkeyshine; faithhopecharity
... and 4.0 Billion in robbery, graft, corruption, kickbacks

Yeah, that too.

23 posted on 03/14/2019 1:04:22 PM PDT by CedarDave (A better name for US Public Schools: Propaganda Indoctrination Centers)
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To: Leaning Right

They are neat. We had the greatest boatman named Gondo Leer who showed us the sights.


24 posted on 03/14/2019 1:11:00 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Dad, Send lawyers, guns and money.)
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To: BenLurkin

Boston had "The Big Dig"

LA will have "The Big Screw"


25 posted on 03/14/2019 1:39:42 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We no longer glorify heroic deeds, we glorify suffering that we call heroic.)
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To: faithhopecharity
the price is ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS!

Just think how much they will save by using contractors who employ illegal aliens!!!


26 posted on 03/14/2019 1:46:14 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We no longer glorify heroic deeds, we glorify suffering that we call heroic.)
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To: BenLurkin

People mover. Izzat a drinking fountain fed with Ex-Lax?


27 posted on 03/14/2019 1:47:41 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: faithhopecharity

LAx needs people movers. Bad. But yeah $5.5 billion!?!? Holy h e double hockey sticks!


28 posted on 03/14/2019 2:01:35 PM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana

Yet Trump can’t get $2B for a wall. When does the war start?


29 posted on 03/14/2019 2:04:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: rktman; BenLurkin; SunkenCiv

Well, it “would have” been enough to build a wall to keep illegal aliens out of LAX.

Now, it will be spent to keep illegal aliens moving through LAX. At least until the earthquake breaks it. And the one after that. And the one after that.

EVERY recent CA major construction project in SFO, LA, Sacramento, San Diego, the Valley, has failed.


30 posted on 03/14/2019 2:05:28 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: faithhopecharity

A billion here, a billion there. Who’s counting? /sarc


31 posted on 03/14/2019 2:11:38 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: BenLurkin

When the 8.9 earthquake hits, kiss that money goodbye.


32 posted on 03/14/2019 2:12:17 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Bullish

You got to this before I could post.
We need sailboat terminals to process the peeps coming from Asia and Hawaii.


33 posted on 03/14/2019 2:13:57 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: monkeyshine

Ha!


34 posted on 03/14/2019 2:36:04 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: BenLurkin

That’s $2.75 million per freaking job. I sincerely hope that each worker gets paid $2.75 million. But none of them will.


35 posted on 03/14/2019 2:52:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Modern feminism: ALL MEN BAD!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah. How can it possibly cost that much?


36 posted on 03/14/2019 4:27:24 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: libstripper

This will just get people from the train to the terminal. Cleveland, Atlanta, Dallas and Fort Worth all have trains from downtown direct to the airport. Phoenix and LA didn’t do that, and you have to take a bus to a train stop some distance from the airport. Sounds like for $5 billion plus, they are going to replace the bus portion. Meanwhile, you can take the train straight from downtown to the ‘hood.

The express bus service from the airport to downtown always made more sense to me.


37 posted on 03/14/2019 4:47:34 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: faithhopecharity
The LAX People Mover project is financed by a bond issue, which will be paid for by revenues from LAX operations. Fly into or out of LAX, or rent a car or buy a drink at a lounge or a hot dog at a snack bar there and you will be paying a bit for the project and for general support of LAX. As a general LA taxpayer though, you will not be kicking in.

As a general rule, government enterprise operations like airports and utilities are usually well-run because they are structured to run like businesses and to rely on operating revenues instead of taxes. Run the business badly, or overcharge or mistreat the customers and they complain and go elsewhere.

For major commercial airports like LAX, the airlines act as a brake against folly and mismanagement because the airport relies heavily on revenue from landing fees and fuel charges imposed on airlines. In extreme cases, airlines stop reduce their flights to badly run, overly expensive airports. I am confident that the LAX People Mover project would not have gotten off the ground without the approval and support of the airlines who are most on the hook to pay for it.

38 posted on 03/14/2019 5:59:05 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

Thanks for that info. Still, a one or two mile team inside a single airport is scheduled to cost several times more than congress is willing to allow for our Mexico border fence (just about 2,000 miles). Something to think about


39 posted on 03/14/2019 6:34:10 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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