No World Series? At least Dodger fans can imagine themselves soaring over the traffic jams on the way to and from Dodger stadium in a new gondola.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has released the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for a proposed gondola to Dodger Stadium located above Downtown Los Angeles in Chavez Ravine.
LA Aerial Rapid Transit Technologies LLC is proposing what is officially known as the Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit Project, and Metro is the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), according to an article by Metro announcing the EIR.
The project now heads to public comment, with an initial virtual hearing scheduled for October 22 and an in-person hearing scheduled for October 25. The project was first proposed in 2018. In 2020, Planetizen shared news that the proposal had sparked controversy for potentially impacting the Los Angeles State Historic Park, located across the 110 Freeway from the stadium, north of Downtown. The project's cost was estimated at $125 million in 2020.
The gondola proposal is hardly the only outlandish pitch for a solution to Dodger Stadium's notorious traffic jams. In 2018, Elon Musk convinced a segment of the population that the Boring Co. would complete a tunnel to the stadium by Opening Day of the 2020 baseball season. The Boring Co. has scrubbed any reference of the so-called "Dugout Loop" from its website, however.
FULL STORY: Draft Environmental Impact Report released today for gondola to Dodger Stadium project
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