Thank you, good points. I didn’t mean to imply that LA Country would (try to) close independent parking garages. I was wondering if based on lower prices and/or convenience and/or better customer service (making reservations, less transit time between parking and terminal, etc.) might “encourage” the independent garages to discontinue operations and if so, if that’s part of the overall (perhaps unwritten) plan. That sounds like a PIA, a side effect of traffic reduction, hotel shuttle to ITF to APM, a whole new layer of getting between hotels and terminals, might take longer than the shuttle sitting in the terminal area traffic.

If using an independent parking facility would involve a shuttle to ITF West (where there are 4,300 parking spots) to the APM, seems that would involve a much longer transit time to the terminals than parking at ITF West. Seems that would drive (no pun intended) MUCH of the parking customers to the ITF parking facility, perhaps driving (some of) the independent parking facilities out of business.

4,300 new spots with 4,000 pre-existing (independent) spots is different than 4,300 new spots with 25,000 pre-existing (independent) spots, I don’t know what those numbers are.