L.A.'s next mayor will face transit challenges. Troubled LAX people mover is Exhibit A
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There are myriad public transportation challenges for the next Los Angeles mayor, but perhaps none is more visible than the long-awaited Skylink people mover train at Los Angeles International Airport. The 2.25-mile train, designed to whisk people from airline terminals to ground transportation, is years behind schedule and more than $1 billion over its original construction budget — bogged down by technical issues and a court battle between the contractor and city airport officials. And now it has become one of the more contentious issues in the mayoral race between incumbent Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman. Raman says Bass and the the city’s board of airport commissioners, which the mayor appoints, haven’t done enough to keep costs in check and to ensure construction deadlines are met. “Over two years ago, when the project was already a year behind schedule, Mayor Bass’s airport commissioners cut a $550 million check in order to cover project cost overruns and supposedly to secure a start service in January of this year, 2026,” Raman said in a statement to The Times.
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