{"id":256881,"date":"2025-09-26T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256881\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:00:18","slug":"the-lax-automated-people-mover-opening-has-been-delayed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256881\/","title":{"rendered":"The LAX Automated People Mover opening has been delayed\u2014again"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s 2022. Life in Los Angeles feels a little on the gloomy side of normal, but\u00a0you at least remember that,\u00a0yes, I\u2019ll finally be able to take a train right into the center of LAX for that revenge travel trip you\u2019re taking\u00a0in 2023<\/a>. So the new year arrives, but the airport\u2019s Automated People Mover doesn\u2019t, and you think,\u00a0alright,\u00a0I\u2019ll just have to wait a little bit longer until it opens\u00a0in 2024<\/a>.\u00a0But when 2024 comes, this time you think, I\u2019m\u00a0smart, I won\u2019t hold my breath for 2025<\/a>. And that\u2019s a good call because\u00a0it turns out the APM won\u2019t actually start service until\u00a02026.<\/p>\n

So here we are again: After once eyeing a January 2026 opening<\/a>\u2014which then got pushed to \u201cearly\u201d 2026\u2014the 2.25-mile elevated train has been delayed yet again. According to a report in the\u00a0<\/a>L.A. Times<\/a>,<\/a>\u00a0the airport connection\u00a0should hopefully be ready by the World Cup<\/a>\u00a0in June of 2026. But even that doesn\u2019t seem like a sure thing, as\u00a0Los Angeles World Airports says it\u2019s working on contingency plans for shuttle buses in case there\u2019s a further delay.<\/p>\n

The problems stem from a dispute between LAWA and LAX Integrated Express Solutions, the project\u2019s contractor. Drive into LAX right now and you\u2019ll see the white automated cars sitting at the stations, just waiting to whisk you over traffic. But the project has been crawling toward completion (it\u2019s currently hovering around 95%)\u00a0due to\u00a0disagreements over compensation and the timeline.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Michael Juliano for Time OutThe LAX Automated People Mover (March 2025) <\/p>\n

When the APM\u00a0does eventually arrive, the driverless, rubber-wheeled cars will arrive around every two minutes at multiple stops in the center of the terminal area, as well as at the off-site economy garage and rideshare pickup area, a consolidated rental car garage and\u2014perhaps most excitingly\u2014a direct transfer to Metro\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0C and K Lines. That station (the\u00a0LAX\/Metro Transit Center) actually already opened this past June<\/a>; though you obviously can\u2019t catch the APM from there quite yet, you can take a bus into the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 2022. Life in Los Angeles feels a little on the gloomy side of normal, but\u00a0you at least…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":256882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,11234,2961,224,5337,11235,1164],"class_list":{"0":"post-256881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-categories-travel","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news-transport-travel","15":"tag-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115272379869767238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}