Originally Posted by
SPN Lifer
We should have years of experience with improved public transit at LAX before the
Line 5 Eglinton, also known as the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT), reaches YYZ around 2031.
Terminal construction and landside access modernization at LAX is no different than anywhere else in that these projects are complex, take a lot of time, and generate an extraordinarily high degree of public interest.
Line 5 was so riddled with incompetence, graft and other assorted mayhem, there was a movement to sue the the project managers and construction companies for millions in damages. Not sure where that idea ended up - probably someone paid some cash to Ford.
LAX has the reverse problem - an organization (LAWA) riddled with incompetence, graft and other assorted third-world-like mayhem, resulting in a complete lack of oversight over project managers and construction companies, who take advantage of the chaos to do whatever they want with the project, including pushing the deadlines into whatever they feel like without repercussion provided the requisite bribes are paid.