Ever since I first moved to Los Angeles, going through LAX meant seeing ads for a ‘People Mover’; a monorail moving passengers back and forth between airport terminals the way high-end cities like Minneapolis, Denver and Orlando do. As LAX became an unusable dumpster fire where you have to take a shuttle to get to a shuttle to get to an Uber to wait in a parking lot, the ads for a ‘People Mover’ kept popping up. The ads made it sound like it was some great achievement rather than something so basic that Disneyland and Mexico had figured it out.
The bidding process began in 2017 for a 2.25-mile track to 6 stations. No one was asking for flying cars or the Jetsons. Just a stupid dinky little monorail based on technology that’s between 100 and 200 years old.
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