Construction of New Roadways Will Include Pylon Move
Starting next year, the combination of Metro’s LAX Metro Transit Center and the new LAX automated people mover will offer a new way to reach airport without a private automobile. But for those who still choose to enter the airport’s notorious horseshoe in their cars, more changes are coming.
The airport’s Airfield and Terminal Modernization Project (ATMP) will dramatically shift how vehicle traffic flows through the airport. LAWA plans to funnel travelers entering from and exiting to Sepulveda Boulevard into a spaghetti-like array of new flyovers, ramps, and roadways originating at and terminating at Sepulveda’s intersection with 96th Street.
“New roadway connections extend east from the Central Terminal Area (CTA) to Jetway Blvd., north to 96th Street and west to Sepulveda, where connections are made to north and southbound traffic,” according to a LAWA presentation.”Points of access and egress to the CTA will be reconfigured for a consolidated footprint over Sepulveda, while closures are planned for connections from Vicksburg Avenue, Sky Way, and Little Century..”
Likewise, plans call for the construction of new elevated pedestrian walkways at Sepulveda’s intersections with Century Boulevard and 96th Street, replacing existing at-grade crosswalks. In addition to more than four miles of new roadway and landscaping, the project also requires changes to several key design elements of the LAX complex. Most notably, construction would require the relocation of the existing LAX monument sign in the median between World Way and Century Boulevard, as well as the replacement of the airport’s 100-foot-tall light pylons.
