Public Transit vs. Uber/Lyft to/from LAX
From email I receive from LA Times:
The board that runs the Los Angeles International Airport wants us to use public transit getting to and from LAX and cut back on taking those rideshare vehicles that tend to gum up the traffic flow around the airport.
To discourage us from hopping into rideshares, the panel approved a fee hike last week for those private transportation companies — businesses like Uber and Lyft — that
gets added every time a passenger is picked up or dropped off at LAX as my colleague
Salvador Hernandez reported.
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Uber and Lyft, as well as taxis and limousines, are required to get permits and operating agreements from LAX and pay a fee to access the airport property and pick up and drop off customers.
Uber and Lyft currently pay a fee of $4 to pick up passengers at the airport and nothing to drop them off.
The proposed access fees for all drop-off and pick-up services with private transportation, including hailed rides, would increase to $12 for the terminal area and $6 for the Skylink area.
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The fee increase is not set to go into effect until Skylink opens this summer.
Sharon's note: The reporter did a test for current public transport vs. Uber. "The result: The public transit alternative takes up to three times longer but saves about $18 per trip."
There's more info in the email I received but can't post due to copyright. If someone has subscription to LA Times print or digital, they'd be able to read the article. Now that I live in the Midwest vs. LA, I just get the headlines in an email with occasional part of the story detailed, such as the above.
Cheers.
[Moderator's edit] Link to the Los Angeles Times article:
Taking an Uber, Lyft to LAX is going to become more expensive soon
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