LAX could connect to LACMTA light-rail service by 2024

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) Board received an update from Los Angeles World Airport (LAWA) officials on its Automated People Mover (APM) project, saying that the light-rail-line could be in service by 2024.

 

The current airport plan is to build three APM stations in LAX’s central terminal area. One station would serve Terminal 1, 6 and 7, the next station would serve Terminals 5 and 6 and the last station would serve the Tom Bradley International Terminal and Terminals 3 and 4.

The current plan, according to LAWA, is to start construction of the APM in 2017 or 2018 with construction taking five to seven years. Airport officials say they are mindful of one potential deadline: the 2024 Summer Olympics.

As for the APM, it will also stop at a new intermodal transportation facility that will have parking, serve as a shuttle bus stop and pickup and drop-off area for passengers. The next APM station would be at the Aviation/96th Station for the Crenshaw/LAX Line, a station that LACMTA will build that is planned as being terminal-like and much more robust than the usual light-rail platform. The final APM station would serve a consolidated rental car facility to be constructed east of Aviation Boulevard.

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