Dec. 2, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: Let me rely the the reason why air taxis are a nasty thought (“Why an unproven air taxi company is spending $126 million to take over an L.A. airport,” Nov. 24):
They’re a waste of sources. A transportation mode that should defy gravity requires way more power and supplies to remain useful than automobiles that merely roll on roads.
They’re a security concern. Lack of energy or management will invariably result in a probable deadly crash to the bottom, probably onto properties.
They make noise. City life is already plagued with an excessive amount of site visitors noise. Introducing the sound of droning robotaxis into nearly any location solely exacerbates this inescapable affect on high quality of life.
They’ve a restricted potential clientele base. The expense of this mode of transportation means it would largely be the area of the rich. Society at massive shouldn’t be anticipated to endure the impacts brought on by a rich few.
Lastly, investments in air taxis ignore actual options to our mobility issues, brought on by poor city planning and underdeveloped transit and various modes of journey. Land-use revisions that create extra widespread entry to housing, buying, work and leisure, and well-designed density that makes transit, biking and strolling viable, are the methods that may greatest put together us for the long run.
Kent Strumpell, Los Angeles
