Oropeza to seek LAX, Green Line link

If mass transportation would ever become self-funding, the funding problem would disappear. But, if rates were high enough to do that, no one would use it. Better to fund more highways and parking.

All talk and no action Oropeza! Ernstwhile rhetoric will get you nowhere! Toodles Hoffsmeyster.

Another example of a "planted" PR piece. Apparently Gene's article yesterday was just the set up to give Jenny some more "free" media coverage. Ya gotta love how the Breeze takes care of the local Democrats.

Keep up the good work Jenny. We have needed good transportation projects that will get us out of our cars for years. I remember Glenn Anderson the Congressman who was always looking for transportation assistance. It would be great to be able to get to LAX on a rail system, Blue Line to Green Line to LAX. Thanks and don't give up.

There are already a dozen bus lines that go to LAX, every one of them faster than taking the Green Line.
There is NO NEED whatsoever for the Green Line to enter the airport - the shuttle works fine. Airport employees are the primary users of the train - travelers are not gonna haul luggage on board.

This is just another idiot politician chasing a headline.

The money would be much better spent extending on the Expo Line to Santa Monica (not yet funded), building the "downtown connector", expanding the "Gold Line" east to Ontario, the Green Line east to the Norwalk Metrolink, or any number of other projects.

The bus to shuttle system is far from fast and efficient if you are departing the airport. When you enter transit center you can get on shuttle and go straight to terminals.

But if you are trying to get to transit center from LAX, you have to board the same shuttle that takes everyone to their parking spaces. So you sit their roaming in circles around expansive parking lots while car drivers get dropped off and you have to wait as the lowest priority. Finally at long last you get taken to the transit center. In all honesty I felt I could have walked on foot to the transit center faster than the bloody shuttle, and that's not an exaggeration.

LAX make tons of money from parking. i do not think they are ready to give up this revenue.

Transit Rider: As a traveler, the main reason I don't take the Green Line to the airport is due to hauling luggage to and from the shuttle bus. If the train/metro went into and around LAX, then I would take the Green Line just as I do in Paris and Rome.

However, instead of "extending the Green Line", I would suggest something like Newark (NJ) airport, a separate train type shuttle that links all the terminals, the remote parking lots, the car rental center, and terminal (at the same level) for trains/subways lines to the city center. This is NOT the suggested LAX "people mover", but a much more robust system.

Gary,

If you've taken the shuttle to Lot C, why didn't you just get off when it first got there and walked the short distance to the transit center? Unless you're carrying lots of bags, it isn't much of a trek. I do it all the time.

Gary wrote:

The bus to shuttle system is far from fast and efficient if you are departing the airport. When you enter transit center you can get on shuttle and go straight to terminals.
But if you are trying to get to transit center from LAX, you have to board the same shuttle that takes everyone to their parking spaces. So you sit their roaming in circles around expansive parking lots while car drivers get dropped off and you have to wait as the lowest priority. Finally at long last you get taken to the transit center. In all honesty I felt I could have walked on foot to the transit center faster than the bloody shuttle, and that's not an exaggeration.

I recently hopped on one of the LAX transit shuttles that loop around and it that took me straight to the transit center. Of course I didn't randomly pick one, but asked which one would take me straight there. IMO there's really no need to extend the green line. They use the same system at the Oakland airport where the BART drops people off at a bus stop and it works fine. Nobody complains like the lazy asses here.