Mr. Charlie’s is as good as everyone says it is, but it’s in one of the worst places imaginable to get to by transit: on La Brea near Melrose Ave.
The D extension will make it slightly easier, but it’ll still be a 212 bus trip north.
SkyLink announcements somewhat audible from just outside the station.
Congratulations to Seattle's Sound Transit, America's fastest-growing train network, which is opening an 7-mile, 3-station extension across Lake Washington today!
This is the system's 5th new segment opened in 2 years, continually pushing ridership up to new record highs!
ITF West curbside TNC pick up and drop off zones looking east.
ITF West curbside TNC pick up and drop off zones looking northeast.
Entrance to the ITF West TNC lot. Signs overhead directing traffic to Sepulveda Boulevard on the left and to all freeways on the right.
ITF West curbs moving along. The connecting roadway appears to be getting a traffic light installed and might even connect to Airport Boulevard?
SBLA's write-up of today's Metro K Line approval vote - messy but ultimately a fairly good sign for future transit in So Cal la.streetsblog.org/2026/03/26/m...
Attn - huge impact to southern California rail here. They're proposing ANOTHER 3 year EIR and delaying construction on our critical rail corridor. @ridesd.org has a form out - slacktivist.org/initiative/l...
Those Lafayette Square homeowners talk about Ralph’s like it’s a fucking temple.
Welp I spoke my public comment in front of the metro board
A new overhead sign at Wilshire/Vermont Station navigating people to the B/D lines via elevator. A handicap sign is also present. These signs have not been updated since the station opened ~30 years ago.
Updated signage at Wilshire/Vermont Station.
🚨 THURSDAY: Show up to save the K Line Northern Extension! 🚨
Mayor Bass and her allies on the board may once again try to delay it over NON issues.
NIMBYism is putting the whole project at risk.
SHOW UP, TAKE ACTION:
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Somewhat related but Cedars-Sinai announced today they're acquiring the Beverly Connection shopping center for future expansion, right across the street from future La Cienega/Beverly station.
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Imagine if the people mover was actually operational when this happened. jfc
Considering the rental car center opened without any warning, I won’t be surprised if they do the same to SkyLink.
No fanfare. No announcement. The sun will rise and LAX will be like “oh and our people mover is open by the way.”
That one surprised me. Ridership is awful (300/day avg? Sheesh). Either they were able to make costs work, or they feel it’s a good loss leader in exchange for the publicity Metro will get by having a station at such a known destination.
The Avis family of rental car companies were already in there, but now the Enterprise and Hertz groups and a couple more companies have moved in.
They are continuing to use shuttle buses until SkyLink is active.
LAX Rental Car Center (ConRAC) officially opened today.
Commenters. Otherwise we’ll be sick of it.
LAX and LAWA have done a horrible job educating the public about their changes. A lot of people think the only way to get to LAX is drive yourself or rideshare.
I’ll bet most of LA doesn’t even know about the APM, or the relocations and closures that will be occurring because of said APM.
Diagram of car rental lots and parking lots that will be moving into the consolidated facility at Los Angeles International Airport
Between the car rental companies and the LAX employee parking, which will take over the top floor of the ConRAC, this will free up a lot of land around LAX that I hope gets turned into something better than a parking lot.
LAWA approved a motion at their last meeting to begin moving the remaining car rental companies into the ConRAC by mid March.
Currently only the Avis family of companies (Avis, Budget, Payless, Zipcar) are in there.
Looking up a closed staircase at the LAX Skylink sign featuring directions for the rental car center, all terminals, and economy parking.
New SkyLink sign peeking through the closed entrance at LAX/Metro Transit Center.
Skylink signage at Station E directing people upstairs to economy parking, the Rental car center, Metro, and all terminals.
A close-up of the sign where it says Metro next to the LA Metro logo.
It’s good to know LAX’s SkyLink will be using the LA Metro logo in its signage. I honestly expected them not to do that.
The old normal is bad. Time for something better.
“Riding it out“ is how we got here.
It’s becoming clearer that if the US were to invade Greenland, despite Denmark‘s wishes, the EU would persuade them to give it up.
The trains will probably start saying “La Cienega” on them once pre-rev starts.
From Metro rail fans Facebook
Looking down at the former LAX City Bus Center, now a holding zone for coach buses at LAX.
in case you ever wondered what happened to the LAX City Bus Center, it's a coach bus staging area now.
Two signs on a street pole. SIGN 1: MAINTENANCE DR PRIVATE STREET NOT DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC USE OR MAINTAINED BY CITY OF L.A (L.A.M.G. 18.07) SIGN 2: NO STOPPING ANY TIME TO RECOVER IMPOUND VEHICLES CALL 3-1-1
Street sign that says "Maintenance Dr" and indicator it is private.
Maintenance Drive looking north.
Maintenance Drive looking south.
Also, Maintenance Drive, the LAWA owned road that runs north-south between Metro's and SkyLink's maintenance yards, has opened to traffic.
