Originally Posted by
TWA884
Uber Black and Lyft Black are licensed
Transportation Charter Party carriers (TCP) and are treated like other car services, not rideshares; thus they can pick up curbside inside the airport.
Walking from T6 to the T7 taxi stand should take approximately five minutes. I have no idea about the taxi availability there. My sister usually takes cabs home from there; I have never heard her complain about having to wait for one.
I just did rideshare out of LAX over thanksgiving. The current setup in the rideshare lot has you walk past a long line of taxis to get to the crosswalk that takes you over to the islands where Uber and Lyft pick up. There were a ton of taxis there late monday night (after midnight)
Originally Posted by
Moderator2
A taxi entering the horseshoe, can/will take a bypass near Terminal 1, which brings them to the west end of Terminal 7. So they reduce their drive time to get to the stand on the east end of Terminal 7 by probably two-thirds. YMMV
During high traffic times (like the holidays) it can still take a long time for vehicles to even get into the horseshoe, so if the roads into the airport are showing all red on traffic maps it can still be faster from T6/7 to walk or shuttle to the LAXit lot.