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[LC0112G]

LAX's new car rental centre.
Until recently, all the big car rental co's (Hertz, Avis, Alamo etc) had their own off-airport rental centres. You just got the bus from outside the terminal to your chosen provider. Now, LAX have rationalised everything, and built a brand new multi-story rental centre. You still need to get the bus to it, but being 'new' means it should be easy - right - nope,

For whatever reason, the busses drop you off on level 0. There is nothing there - you then have to get escalators/lifts up to level 5 where all the rental desks are. Not easy when you're dragging 5 tons of hold and cabin baggage. Thankfully at 5am there isn't much of a queue, but having been told your car parking place, it's back down the lifts/escalators to the relevant floor- again dragging 5 tons of stuff.

Then drive back down to level 0 and exit the building. Are there any signposts - are there bu99ery. By the time you've got your bearings you're headed the wrong way up the freeway.

Useless, absolutley effin useless. Who do they get to design these places?

[Doctor Gollum]

Post grad interns probably.

Heading there next month, so might give it a whirl if we're still up at Marina Del Rey as I don't think there's a convenient Avis office near by...

[BazaJT]

Took the recently acquired Volvo S80 to the main dealer in Doncaster to have an outstanding recall sorted. Coming home decided to run the A18 rather than motorway for a change. Entered a 40 mph limit and then got stuck behind a Skoda Yeti doing 25(until it came to the slightest of bends when they slowed to 20 !! They eventually peeled off to a supermarket so better progress could be made at least for a mile or so when as the limit changed up to 50mph I caught up to a VW Passat estate who proceeded to travel at 30!! Overtaking not possible in either case due to limited forward visibility(making it a dodgy proposition) and in plces hash markings down the centre of the road.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Sounds just like my journey to and from work on any given day.
No-one has a clue how to drive anymore. 

[Rangie]

Sounds just like my journey to and from work on any given day.
No-one has a clue how to drive anymore. 

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Got to agree with you on that, people just seem to drive headlong into situations that should be avoided if only practicing proper roadcraft, what with that & driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs our roads are now extremely dangerous.