How does the Master Plan address off-airport traffic issues?
The Master Plan includes massive congestion relief components and the environmental studies show that these measures can significantly reduce the surface street and freeway impact of meeting local future aviation services demand. The congestion relief package includes, as a recommended mitigation measure to improve traffic flows, direct freeway access to the airport from the local freeways, taking thousands of vehicles off local streets. LAX is one of the only major airports in the country that lacks this kind of direct freeway access and the proposed mitigation measures will correct this obvious flaw in the airport’s current roadway support system. The expanded FlyAway Program and Metro Green Line connection to the Intermodal Transportation Center and the Automated People Mover System are additional ways that the airport will encourage use of mass transit by making the use of transit both convenient and cost effective.
