It is doing the right thing in densifying and it has much better public transit than people give it credit for.
LAX is probably the easiest big city airport to walk out of in the US with the very strange exception of San Diego. There's a freakin' shuttle bus that rides the HOV lane on the freeway to the downtown with a view that would have inspired The Jetsons. It drops you less than a block from the subway which in turn drops you off right at Hollywood and Vine with a large amount of accommodation in a two block radius.
People say "nobody rides the bus" but when you get on one it is packed, service is not bad at all. If you need a cab occasionally, the service is just great.
In movies like Barbie you see people walk from Venice Beach to the downtown, it's a very long walk (15 miles!) but it's a fairly comfortable walk where you won't encounter any difficult obstacles unlike the average American city.
LAX is probably the easiest big city airport to walk out of in the US with the very strange exception of San Diego. There's a freakin' shuttle bus that rides the HOV lane on the freeway to the downtown with a view that would have inspired The Jetsons. It drops you less than a block from the subway which in turn drops you off right at Hollywood and Vine with a large amount of accommodation in a two block radius.
People say "nobody rides the bus" but when you get on one it is packed, service is not bad at all. If you need a cab occasionally, the service is just great.
In movies like Barbie you see people walk from Venice Beach to the downtown, it's a very long walk (15 miles!) but it's a fairly comfortable walk where you won't encounter any difficult obstacles unlike the average American city.