Originally Posted by
chrisl137
Everything I've seen so far has said 2 minute headway at peak hours, but without saying what those peak hours are.
"Peak" certainly runs at least til midnight. I get in at ~11pm pretty regularly and the airport is packed and they run insufficient buses out to the economy lot, so often they're full before they hit the south terminal complex. It got to where I have their phone number in my phone and just call as soon as a full bus blows past without an empty right behind it. They end up serving the south complex worse because people on the south side have to wait for a second bus to come (usually from the parking garage) and get all the way around. They should just be running twice as many buses, or run designated north and south complex buses from the structure whenever they're at peak.
The columns don't need to align with the guideway, they just need to transmit the load to the ground. It was built in an already fully developed area and "misaligned" columns are probably due to things that needed to be avoided on or under the ground.
Per the LAWA
project page "peak" hours (with two-minute headways) will be from 9am to 11pm, which I agree doesn't reflect actual peaks -- I think 10am-midnight makes more sense.
And the misaligned columns I mention have finishes that don't align -- not sure how best to show what I'm referencing, and agree that presumably the columns are where they are to avoid underground, but these look much more like construction deficiencies than design choices. They're areas of exposed, unfinished concrete that are not present on most of the columns, where the column-guideway transition is smooth and flush.