LAX needs better transit connection

REGARDING Jane Engle’s article on the changes at LAX [“Straightening Up So LAX Can Fly Right,” Travel Insider, Dec. 31]:

I believe that one of the most-needed improvements to LAX would be to connect the Metro Green Line to the airport. That way, people can board a Metro train at any stop and, without boarding an additional bus or tram, can make it to a central spot where they can wheel their luggage to their terminal and check-in point.

This would reduce traffic on the 405 and 105 freeways as well as around the LAX loop.

Other cities, such as London, Paris, San Francisco and now Philadelphia, do this.

Who thought it was a good idea to spend billions of our hard-earned tax dollars to build the Green Line to a point 1.5 miles away from LAX?

Let’s finish what was left unfinished.

DANIEL FINK

Los Angeles

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VERY interesting how the powers-that-be at LAX can include spiffed-up terminals and drive-though check-in but not address a major deficiency in all major airports in this country.

When flights are canceled, people end up sleeping on the floor of the terminals. Remember the blizzard in Denver?

Set-aside rooms with showers and a bed for people with long delays can be a godsend.

Of course, the traveler would pay for such accommodation. Kastrup Airport (Copenhagen) had such accommodations 30 years ago for the weary travelers who had long layovers.

Why can’t major U.S. airports do the same?

I recently was at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and was delayed for eight hours. No such room there.

I hope someone with clout will read this and do something valuable for the weary traveler caught at LAX.

JOAN KERR

Torrance