What's not covered enough is the massive inflation in cost per enplanement that all travelers will be paying for decades to come, and will certainly not help LAX's demand prospects. These construction costs all feel like imaginary numbers as the costs become buried in escalating fares over years.

LAX cost per enplanement was $23.27 in 2022 and forecast to be $60.72 in 2034, more than 8% CAGR over 12 years. This forecast 2034 CPE is ~50% higher than the forecast CPEs in ORD and SFO. And this is just the forecast...
Source is p254: https://dwuconsulting.com/images/OS/...25ABC%20OS.pdf, and CPE comparisons https://www.dwuconsulting.com/airpor.../large-hub/cpe

For a tiny fraction of the $1B I wish LAWA would simply invest in signs showing accurate travel times to the horseshoe near all ingress roadways. Give people enough time to realize when there is traffic to divert the dropoff to the APM station. The problem is the horseshoe is not gridlocked many times of the day, so most people will continue to use it vs the guaranteed inconvenience of a remote dropoff point. Then once a car approaches the horseshoe, when there is lots of traffic, it is often too late to divert or drivers treat the lost time as a sunk cost, underestimate remaining travel time, and don't bother turning around.