Letters: Getting to LAX by rail, or not

Re “Metro shelves direct rail to LAX,” Jan. 24

How can we think ourselves a first-rate city when we do not have the will to build a light-rail system directly to our airport? We failed with the Green Line. Are we to fail again with the Crenshaw Line?

Looking at the proposed route, it seems obvious that routing the line at some point to the west side of the existing railway line would allow a straight path to the airport along Century Boulevard’s center divider.

Michele Wynne

Los Angeles

Colorado, with a population less than L.A. County, will soon have a direct rail line more than

22 miles long between Denver International Airport and that city’s downtown. Washington is building a similar line, also more than 22 miles, to Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.

And yet Los Angeles, home to some of the most creative minds in the world and the second-biggest city in the U.S., likely won’t build a line of less than two miles from its Metro to Los Angeles International Airport. How embarrassing is this?

Thomas Michael Kelley

Newbury Park

Two of the hallmarks of a world-class airport are direct-rail and people-mover service to and from the terminals and a consolidated rental car center.

LAX has neither. San Francisco has both.

Enough said.

Jack Keady

Playa del Rey

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