Originally Posted by BillBurn (Post 36601234)

MSC South pre-fab sections are being moved on-site this month. 1st section moved on night of October 3rd and all of them will be in place by end of October. This bodes well for staying on current schedule of opening MSC South by end of 2025.

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...MSC South, an eight-gate, two-story, approximately 150,000-square-feet addition to LAX.
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LAX’s MSC South Concourse features first-of-its-kind innovation with Offsite Construction and Relocation, a technique that enables flexible future usability. The concourse’s structure is grounded in sustainable practices and designed for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification.

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The Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) South project will extend the West Gates at Tom Bradley International Terminal with a southern wing, adding approximately 146,000 square feet and eight gates for narrowbody aircraft.

Utilizing a construction technique called Offsite Construction and Relocation (OCR), MSC South was built in nine segments at a location roughly a mile and a half away from the project’s site on the airfield, which will then be carefully delivered and assembled in place south of the West Gates. The OCR technique is both innovative and adaptive, saving public funds and time with a high degree of building control and supervision. Photos and video of the relocation phase are available for viewing here.

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But now that elusive air-rail link is almost here. After the long-awaited Automated People Mover train opens in 2026, it will connect LAX to the Metro rail system from the K Line and the C Line.
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Once running, Metro riders will be able to board the people mover at the upcoming LAX/Metro Transit Center Station at Aviation Boulevard and 96th Street directly from the K Line or C Line, formerly known as the Green Line. That route will change for the first time since it opened in 1995 — instead of heading south from El Segundo, the C Line will curve upward and end at the transit center and the K Line will run on the tracks that extend to Redondo Beach.
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Someone traveling from downtown to LAX will have two ways — the A Line to the C Line or the E Line to the K Line — to get to the transit center, where they’d board a people mover train upstairs to the terminals. Residents in places such as Redondo Beach, Norwalk, Leimert Park and Inglewood will be able to make it to LAX on one Metro train, while those in Long Beach, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Azusa and East L.A. will need to take two. LAX to Hollywood or Universal Studios would take three trains.
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In the 1990s, Metro’s then-Green Line was expected to offer a direct connection to LAX but ended two miles short of the terminals. At its closest, it’s less than 900 yards from the runways. Airport officials were reportedly concerned over potential lost parking profits if travelers had a Metro option. According to media reports in 1990, LAX officials raised the cost of parking to bring in more parking revenue, which helped lower the cost of landing fees for airlines.

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Originally Posted by TWA884 (Post 36621482)

Los Angeles Times:

Originally Posted by Eastbay1K (Post 36621655)

Wow. So LAX to the East SFV will be a "Peoplemover" rail line plus three additional rail lines, and to the Central / West SFV will be that plus a BRT transfer. Holy mother of "I'm never taking that." Jamais jamais, ne dis jamais jamais, but methinks me really thinks it will be a "never."

Originally Posted by dhuey (Post 36624008)

When they finally have a rail connection from the terminals to the rental car center, we'll give it a shot. My in-laws are in Manhattan Beach, so very close to LAX. But the LAX rental car experience experience...

1) Go out to skinny traffic island.
2) Wait for your rental car company's shuttle bus.
3) Wait longer for the bus.
4) I think I see the bus.
5) No, that's a different company's bus.
6) On the bus.
7) Loading everyone and their luggage takes five minutes.
8) Bus crawls through the horseshoe, stopping to pick up and drop off passengers several times.
9) Bus heads to the rental car center.
10) In your rental car, having spent more time between your arrival gate and the car than up in the air.

...has pushed us to use Long Beach.

Originally Posted by TWA884 (Post 34299019)

Gates 40, 46B, 46C, 48A, 48B, 49A and 49B in Terminal 4 are closed for construction. There is a temporary wall extending all the way from Gate 46A to 47B.

Originally Posted by BillBurn (Post 36654338)

Rode past the MSC South site last week. They have completed rolling out the prefab sections, looks like they are still on track to be finished by end of 2025.

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Originally Posted by LovePrunes (Post 36654465)

its ashame they didn't have the funds to continue with the cool architectural design of TBIT midfield for this new section...but at least they have more gates, even if the style of all this new construction is a hodgepodge of elements.

Originally Posted by hsumh316 (Post 36630599)

This is now done. Opened on October 23.

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Originally Posted by NilesStandish (Post 36707196)

Are these the new gates that were under construction?

Originally Posted by TWA884 (Post 36642589)

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