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Originally Posted by hughfb3
I think you are getting terminal 0 confused with what has been referred to as Terminal 1.5 which will be Landside only and will bridge the gap between 1 and 2 with ticketing and baggage claim etc. T0 will be both Land and Airside. T1.5 is the last remaining gap between all terminals. Once complete, we will have a continuous ring of buildings all interconnected around the ring road
From cranky flier http://crankyflier.com/2017/01/31/im...h-push-at-lax/
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T0 hasn't been fully defined because no EIR has been done on it. But in the LAWA long range plan, T0 was shown as an annex of T1 without land side access, primarily because traffic concerns. Basically, to build T0 will involve removing Vicksurg Ave so land side vehicle traffic would have to be rerouted all on Sepulveda and lower level of World Way. As such, T0 would not have upper roadway access so it could not have a departure area (this was before LAWA gave up on the idea of upper level = departure concept). And adding arrival level access to T0 will cause traffic congestion to spill out to Sepulveda Blvd. So the basic idea is T0 will be a concourse... only gates and air side access. The land side access is via T1. If LAWA wants to make T0 a full blown terminal, it will probably have to pay for city of LA to completely change the existing alignment of Sepulveda Blvd, possibly taking properties on the east side of the road right now (a hotel, a vacant building, two parking lots, and LAX long term parking lot). Or perhaps after APM is operational, traffic will not be an issue and T0 can have land side access right off Sepulveda. Who knows... the point is that no actual EIR study has been done. Only a preliminary assessment when LAWA was updating the LAX long range plan, and that was several years ago before APM and land side access projects got approved.
T1.5 EIR is done and construction will happen soon after Delta finalizes its T2 renovation schedule. It will be a land side + air side facility but no gates. The land side will include new airline counters. The air side will include secured passage between T1 and T2, office space, and airline lounges.
United and LAWA just started discussion on T9, which will be located where Eagle's nest and Delta maintenance is located right now. It will be a concourse only design with land side access from T7/T8 (a bridge of some sort across Sepulveda).