Watch this video about the LAX people mover
I know I am a sucker for nandert videos and just post all of them here, but they're great content for people who care about Los Angeles area rail. Nick Andert is a documentary filmmaker whose main hobby seems to be "churning out massive amounts of rail advocate youtube content," and he's very good at it.
His most recent video digs into a report about the delay of our local airport's rail connection. Like many US airports, subway systems won't connect directly to the airport - but a smaller, shittier system will. Its official name is "LAX Skylink," and it will connect not only the K and C line light rail to the airport, but also various rental car services.
The idea is that for the average person visiting LA, using a car to exit the airport won't be necessary at all. It won't be anywhere near as convenient as Chicago, but it will be a massive improvement.
Anyway, it's been delayed to a truly insane degree, and this report offers a key explanation: the contractor, a single-project company made up of many smaller contractors all bound together, realized pretty early on in the process that they could continue milking LA's public funds pretty much forever, and LA would always say "yes," because litigation would mean even further delays. We're being held captive by a bunch of transparently corrupt maniacs, basically.
That detail about sending a single worker to the worksite to maintain the illusion that work was "continuing" is insane. I hope we get the people mover EVENTUALLY... and I hope that LINXS leadership dies in jail. But I know that hope is unrealistic! They'll probably get away with it!!