Does L.A. Really Need a Gondola to Dodger Stadium"
With seating for 56,000 fans, Dodger Stadium is the largest ballpark in the country. | Etienne Laurent/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
A one-mile sky ride won?t solve Chavez Ravine?s transportation problems. As anyone who has attempted to see a game at the country?s third-oldest ballpark will attest, Dodger Stadium is not an easy place to reach except by automobile. Once you get there, however, and pay up to $50 to park, the asphalt in the lot rippling like an infinity pool before a stunning view of Downtown Los Angeles, it all makes sense: A stadium built at the height of car culture on a mountaintop with 16,000 parking spaces is working exactly as designed.
Which is why, in recent years, several schemes have been proposed to make Dodger Stadium incrementally more accessible to the incrementally more multimodal city that surrounds it. One of these ideas was presented to the board of L.A.?s regional transit agency, Metro, last week: a privately owned and operated aerial gondola named Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit, or LA ART, which would whisk gamegoers on a one-mile ride from Union Station to the stadium in seven minutes, sailing above traffic in airborne pods (eventually, of course; for now, the spectators are all cardboard cutouts). The ride will cost ?less than parking at Dodger Stadium? and is expected to be completed in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics at a cost previously estimated at $125 million. At the Metro meeting, an LA ART representative said that the gondola ...
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