LA airport to shuttle Uber, Lyft, taxi customers between terminals and new pickup area: reports
Need a quick trip home from the airport? If you just arrived in Los Angeles, you will soon need to take a shuttle bus to a parking lot from the terminal to take Uber, Lyft or taxi.
Officials at Los Angeles International Airport plan Friday to announce details of their efforts to steer arriving passengers from traditional pick-up pickups, reports state.
Increasing traffic congestion at the airport – prompted by the rise of vehicle services – is partly to blame, Keith Wilschetz, Deputy Director of Operations and Emergency Management Division at Los Angeles World Airports, told the Los Angeles Times.
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In addition, LAX has seen passenger traffic increase from 59 million in 201[ads1]0 to 87.5 million in 2018, according to Skift, a news site covering the travel industry.
"We understand that trying to get into the central terminal area is a challenge and has been for a long time, and we have been working to make it much better," Wilschetz told The Times. "This is a way we can do it."
"We understand that trying to get into the central terminal area is a challenge and it has been a long time, and we have been working to make it much better. This is one way we can do it."
According to the plan, passengers will wait three to five minutes for a shuttle that will take no more than 15 minutes, the Times reported – or they can choose to go to pickup location instead, a journey estimated to take up to 18 minutes, depending on which terminal the passenger leaves from.
Twitter users were expressing mixed reactions to the LAX plan.
"This gate to the street from the terminal to the LAX parking lot is going to run smoooooooooooth, "wrote a Twitter user.
" This is the best news I've heard in many years, "commented another Twitter user.
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The LAX plan follows a similar move at San Francisco International Airport for pickup from its domestic terminals, and an announcement that Boston's Logan International Airport has a similar plan in the works, LA reports Times.
It's also part of LAX's $ 14 billion effort to modernize ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics, to be held in Los Angeles, according to Shift. [19659016]
