Boston had "The Big Dig"
LA will have "The Big Screw"
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 ...
That means $8B and finished in 2029.
My guess is that it will be over 10 billion before it’s done.
Yeah, that too.
They are neat. We had the greatest boatman named Gondo Leer who showed us the sights.
Boston had "The Big Dig"
LA will have "The Big Screw"
Just think how much they will save by using contractors who employ illegal aliens!!!
People mover. Izzat a drinking fountain fed with Ex-Lax?
LAx needs people movers. Bad. But yeah $5.5 billion!?!? Holy h e double hockey sticks!
Yet Trump can’t get $2B for a wall. When does the war start?
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.
A billion here, a billion there. Who’s counting? /sarc
When the 8.9 earthquake hits, kiss that money goodbye.
You got to this before I could post.
We need sailboat terminals to process the peeps coming from Asia and Hawaii.
Ha!
That’s $2.75 million per freaking job. I sincerely hope that each worker gets paid $2.75 million. But none of them will.
Yeah. How can it possibly cost that much?
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.
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.
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
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