UCLA Luskin • December 18, 2025
“Spare a thought here for residents of Westchester, Inglewood and El Segundo. They already live with cut-through traffic and the dangerous crashes and pollution this traffic causes. This project threatens to make all of that worse, risking lives and livelihoods for not just the immediate neighborhoods but the nearly 1 million people living within seven miles of LAX. ”
LA Times • December 16, 2025
“This project isn’t scheduled to be completed before the 2028 Olympics. And what’s more, it won’t fix traffic at the airport — it will only make it worse.”
Golden State Report • December 2, 2025
“But this strikes me as a reckless, almost intentional acceleration of climate change — a kind of climate arson, if you will.”
Spectum News • November 28, 2025
“$1.5 billion is, you know, favorable amount of money for something that I don’t think will address the core issues that we’re talking about”
Faizah Malik • November 27, 2025
"Did you know that LAX is proposing a $1.5 billion roadway expansion project for Sepulveda Blvd.? According to the project’s environmental impact report, the expansion will induce another 50,000 new vehicle miles traveled…DAILY."
Westside Current • November 20, 2025
"Incredibly, according to the Airport’s own Environmental Impact Report, the new roads will make traffic worse at several intersections near the airport and are expected to induce additional vehicle miles traveled daily."
Westside Current • November 17, 2025
"Widening roadways will not reduce traffic or flows to LAX because the "bottleneck in the system is the backup of the pick- up and drop-off points at the terminals, and not at the capacity of the roads leading into the airport."
LA Times • November 15, 2025
"The countdown to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games has sent Los Angeles International Airport into a $1.5-billion sprint to rebuild its roads, drawing ire from critics who argue the plan leaves the airport’s most infamous bottleneck — the “horseshoe” — largely untouched."
LAist• November 15, 2025
"One of the two companies selected to build the roadways, FlatironDragados, is also a member of the consortium of companies known as LINXS that the city hired back in 2018 to design and build the train that will eventually shuttle travelers between the airport terminals... LINXS has delayed the train from its scheduled opening in 2023 to some time next year and resulted in the project costing nearly $880 million more than initially planned."
Mar Vista Voice • November 14, 2025
"LAWA argues this will separate airport traffic from local streets and improve efficiency. Yet even the agency’s own environmental documents acknowledge that the project will induce additional vehicle miles traveled and cause impacts that cannot be mitigated. These warnings stand in direct conflict with the idea that widening access roads is a viable solution to gridlock."
Mar Vista Voice • October 30, 2025
"The larger question is why Los Angeles keeps repeating the same pattern. The city widened the 405 Freeway a decade ago, endured years of disruption, and ended up with more congestion. LAX is now preparing to make the same mistake on a local scale."
Streetsblog LA • October 28, 2025
"When complete, it will send even more cars into the already gridlocked central "horseshoe" roadway. Widening the roads leading into an unchanged horseshoe will, you guessed it, worsen congestion in the horseshoe."
Nandert • October 27, 2025
"What, you don't want a mess of freeway ramps vomited out over Westchester?"
Torched • October 23 2025
"I'm calling this hefty serving of spaghetti carbon-emissions the LAX-pressway. And the LAX-pressway must be stopped."
Mar Vista Voice • October 20, 2025
"The watchdog site LAXGridlock.com argues that the project is outdated, wasteful, and environmentally destructive."
Urbanize LA • October 9, 2025
"Retooling the airport's roadways is part of a larger plan to expand passenger capacity at the airport by adding a new Concourse 0 to Terminal 1, and a new Terminal 9 on the east side of Sepulveda Boulevard... However, as passenger volumes have failed to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, those plans have been put on hold."