The planned Inglewood Transit Connector (ITC) in the Los Angeles area is moving forward thanks to a recent $1.09 billion investment by the federal government that will help deliver the 1.6-mile automated people mover to the rapidly changing South Bay district. 

Once in place, the ITC will connect the neighborhood’s most important recent economic cogs, including SoFi Stadium and the soon-to-open Intuit Dome, with the Metro line while serving a maximum of 11,000 riders per hour. The design contractor for the project's implementation will be selected later in the year.

"This action delivers on the promise of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support communities whose transit infrastructure has been neglected for too long and who have been impacted negatively by the construction of major freeways like the I-405 in Inglewood," Senator Alex Padilla said at the announcement.

"For the federal government to make a $1 billion investment in a city of 9 square miles, 110,000 people — that's unprecedented, unheard of," Inglewood’s Mayor James T. Butts told a local news outlet. "And evidences the understanding that this is not just a local project, but it's one with regional implications."

The initiative had already secured more than $873 million in local, state, and other federal monies that will help complete the project in advance of the start of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games. It joins the nearly complete LAX Automated People Mover as the second such transit design in the region. 

Three prequalified teams are currently working on proposals, with a winning bid expected later in the summer.