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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Impending storm and new Uber rules at LAX: What’s a harried traveler to do?

    Rain, a new rideshare system, and the busiest travel week of the year are likely to cause more stress at LAX.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Nov 26, 2019 • 1 min read

    Rain, a new rideshare system, and the busiest travel week of the year are likely to cause more stress at LAX. Airport officials say between last week and the beginning of December, more than 3 million people will pass through the airport.

    On top of storm predictions, it’ll be the first major test for LAX-IT, the airport’s new rideshare pickup system. The goal was to curb the airport’s unruly traffic. But people are still reporting long wait times and even longer traffic lines.

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    What California can learn from Australia’s fire warning system
    1. 0:00How California can improve its fire warning system: Lessons from Australia
    2. 8:27Democrats don’t like Tulsi Gabbard, but the alt-right does
    3. 17:08‘The Devil Next Door’: Ford autoworker forced to stand trial for committing war crimes during the Holocaust
    4. 32:08Will new vaccine effectively save bees?
    5. 40:53Impending storm and new Uber rules at LAX: What’s a harried traveler to do?You’re reading this
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