The American mind cannot comprehend transportation unless it involves cars somehow
They apparently cannot also comprehend multi storey Carparks.
What in the concrete hellscape is this?
Even better, its on top of a hill with only a couple roads access. Needless to say, traffic is a fucking nightmare. Put a subway in from literally anywhere else to the stadium would be a better option.
Also, it comes with the story of Chavez Ravine which was forcefully evicted to make way for the stadium.
Now, let me guess what kind of people lived there…
What a complete and utter surprise.
LA and bulldozing neighborhoods is sadly a tale as old as time
LA is thinking of doing a gondola
Why not just drive from parking to the stadium? No need to build an expensive subway, just a small 8 lane road from the parking to the stadium will be enough.
70mph limit
What a gigantic waste of space. Never knew how large this stadium is.
Even if you were a local you probably wouldn’t appreciate it unless you saw it like this. How much housing/flats could have been created rather than spending at most a few nights a week as a car park?
Why dod they not build a 3-4 story parking garage around the stadium? The area of the parking loy ia greater than the stadium itself.
Parking garages are expensive. You can spend $30,000 to build a space… At $50 a game you’d pay it off in 7.5 seasons, not controlling for maintenance and operating costs.
Now the trend is to build entertainment districts around venues… Which creates more revenue per square foot, so you’ll start to see more garages going up.
Getting to/from dodger stadium is awful. There’s only 1 small motel nearby. It’s an uphill walk. The traffic is a mess. There’s no near train stop.
What this place needs is obviously more car lanes.
Disneyland has trams to take you from the parking lots to the entrance of the park. This is the next iteration.
Meanwhile BART is being sued by a stadium for trying to extend service to the stadium
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sharks-sue-to-slow-BART-San-Jose-extension-in-12889297.php
Reading the Sharks president’s arguments felt like my brain was turning to slurry.
🎵 Pave paradise
🎵 And put up a parking lot
Paradiseminority communities
Uhhhh, why haven’t they done underground parking?
I would wager Earthquakes would be one reason.
LA has plenty of underground parking, including at the children’s hospital, so I don’t think that it’s that.
That might make line go up more slowly.
nottheonion
What a shithole…
Something very yonic and sapphic about this picture… I see why lesbians love softball
Actually they’ll be planning to have an entire exit path to all major interior and exterior highway arteries 🔨 🛣️
They gave up on the gondola?
I think the Gondola is still on the table. Honestly it’s a great idea, Union station is very close as the crow flies, just walking from it right now is a nightmare because of the freeway in the way.
An extention of some light or heavy rail line would be good
Eh, I agree with nandert that an underground light metro would be more useful, in part because you can use it to extend transit north of Dodgers Stadium to create a better used system overall.
That may be, I’m just unsure on the cost differential. Feels like an underground line would be more expensive, but IDK.
