All new and improved roads lead to Los Angeles International Airport

The opening of new and expanded roadways offer “unprecedented access and connectivity to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and its new facilities”, according to Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).

These include the newly-connected 98th Street, which spans from La Cienega Boulevard to Sepulveda Boulevard, and Jetway Boulevard, a new north-south connection between Century Boulevard to Westchester Parkway.

Together, notes LAWA, the new roadways increase vehicular mobility and provide new transit options for vehicles navigating the LAX area.

“Roadway improvements are a significant part of our efforts to improve mobility and access to LAX and its facilities, and the openings of 98th Street and Jetway Boulevard are the latest examples of those efforts,” said Jake Adams, LAWA’s deputy executive director for the Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP).

“I want to congratulate the LAWA teams, as well as those with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and all of our contracting partners who worked to complete these new roadways.”

The newly connected 98th Street is now a single contiguous roadway, running from the on- and off-ramps at La Cienega Boulevard to Sepulveda Boulevard.

The one-and-a-half-mile roadway, which runs parallel to Century Boulevard, is a new east-west roadway alternative that includes brand new intersections serving Bellanca Avenue, Aviation Boulevard and Concourse Way, as well as complementary landscaping and sidewalks.

LAWA’s effort to connect the entirety of 98th Street was made possible by working in co-operation with other government agencies, including the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering (LABOE), the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) and Caltrans.

Each agency provided critical support in bringing the new roadway to life. Skanska Civil USA served as LAWA’s contractor on the 98th Street Extension project.

Teams from LADOT and Caltrans worked with LAWA’s engineering and planning staff to implement design solutions that ensured the safe and proper flow of vehicles in and around key areas, such as the LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car (ConRAC) facility, located nearby new roadway work at the La Cienega on- and off-ramps and the new intersection with Concourse Way.

These new roads and the new intersection offer drivers returning vehicles to the ConRAC with an alternative to exiting onto Century Boulevard from La Cienega Boulevard from Interstate 405, which LAWA believes will reduce traffic on and around the intersection of La Cienega Boulevard and Century Boulevard.

The project also allowed for the installation of a new water trunk line from LADWP, which replaced a trunk line installed in 1937 within Century Boulevard.