From Ken Ohrn:
This, amazingly, is real. Try searching for this on Google images, unless you plan to have a relaxed and pleasant afternoon.
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That’s a BRT stop in the middle of the bottom road. I wonder how one might arrive there in order to catch the bus.
The green line light rail runs on the upper level and intersects with the silver line BRT. I’ve made this connection myself, and it is surprisingly tolerable under the circumstances.
Where are the bike paths?
Yeah, old-fashioned cloverlefs have generally be replaced with the shallower curved ramps seen at this interchange. The ramps in the middle bottom of the pic look like HOV-to-HOV ramps.
Yeah, the BRT connects to the Green Line here – something I’ve used a few times. Definitely an unpleasant experience waiting for a bus or train in the middle of this morass, but the connection doesn’t generally take too long. Also, as per the guest comment above about HOV ramps, several of the ramps in the picture are HOV-to-HOV ramps. So, yeah, it’s a lot of things all happening at once. Really unpleasant to hang out in, and also not unlike most major freeway interchanges around the country.
As stated above, I don’t think it should be a candidate. There’s a light rail line, a BRT facility, HOV lanes, and ExpressLanes, all of which in various ways encourage public transit. It ain’t pretty, but it provides fast, efficient public transit connections to thousands of people everyday, nearly all of them low-income residents of the surrounding neighborhoods.
Freeways from LAX to Anaheim all had HOV lanes and often separate exits so you don’t have to leave the HOV lane to switch highways. The green line LRT runs down the middle of the Century freeway and it’s clearly built for speed rather than accessibility. Stations are really far apart and I couldn’t see how people were supposed to get there from the surrounding area. There must be some bus stops on the overpasses I didn’t notice while zipping along on the bus.
Yes, there are bus stops on overpasses, heavily used.
The Green Line does connect with the Blue Line (which runs between downtown LA and Long Beach (and close to ferries from Catalina Island, too) and the Green Line takes you closer to LAX than any other line. There’s a shuttle bus from Aviation/LAX Station to LAX itself.