LAX People Mover Delayed Again: Why LA Can’t Build

 

Hour 4 (11.06) Disneyland was built in about a year. LAX’s people mover was promised for 2023 and slipped to 2027. Plus: 3,000 tarantulas stuffed in socks, and an 84-cent-a-pound turkey. 

9:05 — Peru arrested two Germans and a Polish man trying to check suitcases full of tarantulas, hidden in dozens of socks, onto flights to Europe. A group of tarantulas is called a “cluster.” Morgan Fairchild, 76, the soap star who played Chandler Bing’s mom on Friends, joined OnlyFans and says her content is “not that kind.” That leads into Netflix’s three-part docuseries The One About Matthew Perry. Plus, a nude-in-the-sky story. 

9:20 — For 55 hours, eastbound 91 shrinks to three lanes between the 241 and Green River Road near Corona. Two of the open lanes are toll lanes, and they’re free for everyone during the closure. Caltrans is replacing 82-foot culvert segments so wildlife can cross under the freeway. 

9:35 — Walmart has frozen turkeys at 84 cents a pound, and Butterball is 97 cents. Conway brought home a test turkey, and his wife turned it into the best gravy he’s ever had. Why Thanksgiving is the brownest meal of the year, and how Conway orders and judges' restaurants now. 

9:50 — The 91 is narrowed through Corona, and the Vincent Thomas Bridge is closed for 16 months. Has LA forgotten how to build? Disneyland went from groundbreaking to opening day in about a year. The Santa Monica Pier sign, up since 1941, came down in October for restoration in Las Vegas and isn’t due back until late 2027. The $3.3 billion LAX People Mover was supposed to open in 2023. 

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