That’s the most important purpose of LAWA. Enough graft from contractors to keep everyone happy with some extra pocket change to pay off the county commissioners.

So what traffic will still go into the horseshoe besides cars parking in the terminal lots?

Likely the same private cars and black car services - Miami, whose plans and blueprints LAWA stole for this project - tried the same approach after finishing their transit center and people-mover, but private cars still enter the same roads rather than the kiss'n'ride area in the transit center. Unless you use police or expensive tolling to stop private cars, they will still enter the terminal roadway.

From LAist:

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.

I crawled through the horseshoe twice on the evening of Friday, November 14. I was picking up my daughters, and I could not believe how slow the crawl was. I think start to finish each time, just within the horseshoe, was around 45 minutes.

Meanwhile, the people mover stations and tracks just sit up there, looking ready to go. But for some reason, they are nowhere near ready to go. Sheesh.

Do you enjoy suffering?

Unless your daughters only arrive at TBIT, East Way, West Way, and Center Way offer shortcuts to skip parts of or escape the horseshoe.

The people mover is actually a public art project to create a monument to the futility of dreaming of a better future.

FTFY.

David

The shortcuts are there, yes.
But getting into them is not always possible when everything is clogged up.

So what's to happen with LAX airport traffic coming off/going to the 105 as well as traffic coming from/to the South Bay in the picture above? Compare current vs. future...

Wow. Wow. Wow.

David

Except it's never going to work. At the rate they're going it's more likely to just remain a giant sculpture.

They've brought in consultants from Berlin Brandenburg and DIA baggage conveyor to assist in building the ultimate nonfunctional system.

ok, but "which" Olympics? 2028? Or the next one?

Thanks for posting about this. I could not find anything about the airside transfer on LAX websites.

It's been over a month, but do you recall where to catch the airside transfer in T4 and T6 ? Was it all the way to the furthest end of each terminal?

Take a look at FlyerBeek's report in the 2023 - 2025 LAX Connections and Transfers Thread.