{"id":5712,"date":"2019-10-08T10:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2023-01-05T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:10:13","slug":"heres-why-lax-airport-is-ending-curbside-pickup-for-taxis-uber-and-lyft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/2019\/10\/08\/heres-why-lax-airport-is-ending-curbside-pickup-for-taxis-uber-and-lyft\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why LAX Airport is Ending Curbside Pickup for Taxis, Uber, and Lyft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LAX.jpg\" alt=\"LAX Taxi\" class=\"wp-image-5713\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have ever flown into LAX airport and tried to hail a cab you can commiserate with the thousands of people who have complained that the congestion at Los Angeles International Airport was growing dire. What should take only 5 minutes has increased to a half hour ordeal in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the ever-increasing airport\ntraffic, city officials decided that starting at the end of this month\n(October, 2019) all travelers departing from LAX will be required to board a\nshuttle or walk to a new waiting area where they will be able to catch a rideshare\nvehicle or taxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The curbside lanes will be converted\nto bus lanes which will ferry passengers to and from the new pick up lot. Buses\nare expected to arrive every 3-5 minutes to shuttle passengers. The buses will\nbe easy to notice, as they have been painted a bright green color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new rideshare pickup lot has a ton\nto offer from umbrellas, trash cans, bathrooms, phone charging stations and even\nfood trucks that will operate from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This current plan will remain in\neffect until 2023 when LAX hopes to have completed construction on an elevated\nskytrain which will cut down on the travel time to and from the designated pick\nup lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this is a big change for\ntravelers who depend on LAX, officials are confident that it will cut down on\ntravel time. As a reminder, drop-off and pickup policies for family and\nfriends, will not change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever flown into LAX airport and tried to hail a cab you can commiserate with the thousands of people who have complained that the congestion at Los Angeles International Airport was growing dire. What should take only 5 minutes has increased to a half hour ordeal in recent years. Due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1347,1349,1343,1345,1344,1341,1342,1346,1348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}