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$1.6B for just 12 gates?? What kind of idiot signed off on this project?
If LAX wants to join the 21st century, they don't need 12 more gates, they to start with:
1. a Miami-style high speed monorail connecting the terminals with a centralized rental car and transportation hub station off-site
2. an "overlay" build-out that layers a pre and post security ticketing/security concourse on top of the separate terminal buildings to create one consistent U shaped seamless terminal building to permit gate assignment flexibility instead of so many disconnected terminal buildings
3. a McNamara/DTW style pre and post security monorail built inside the overlay that moves people between zones of the new single-terminal look overlay or a YYZ-style high speed moving walk-ways doing the same at ground level