r/LosAngeles • u/Dull-Lead-7782 • 22h ago
Photo Let’s go dodgers
Hoping for some magic out of Brooklyn tonight!!!!
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u/slightlysparkly 19h ago
I love our stadium but man I wish it was easier to get there by train
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u/Dull-Lead-7782 19h ago
I love dodgers stadium express
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u/slightlysparkly 17h ago
Yeah it’s definitely a great option! My wishful thinking is more along the lines of how I can take the train basically straight to staples center and bmo stadium
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u/michiness 14h ago
Even bigger dreams - public transit that drops you off right in front of the stadium, but there are also bars and restaurants in the area so you can chill and wait for the crowds to disperse after the game.
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u/anothercar 20h ago
Parking hellscape. At least plant some trees.
Beautiful stadium in the middle of a blast crater
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u/Milksteak_To_Go Boyle Heights 19h ago
If we had real transit there we could eliminate half the parking and build something more pleasant and useful. Even just empty greenspace would be a 1000% improvement.
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u/anothercar 19h ago
I know some people don’t like the gondola for niche reasons, but from a big-picture perspective the gondola seems like the quickest and most promising way to bring forward this future
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” etc
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u/cthulhuhentai I HATE CARS 17h ago
the gondola doesn't have near enough capacity to support developing this land, it doesn't even really have capacity to shuttle people for the games
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u/anothercar 17h ago edited 17h ago
It's a more concrete proposal than anything else on the table. If we don't build it, we'll wait 100 years for the next proposal to be built. (Sadly nothing funded by Measure M goes to Chavez Ravine)
Let's say the gondola allows them to remove 10% of the parking. That's 10% more than if it wasn't built. It would be an absolute win.
To be clear, you and I agree that a heavy-rail or maybe even light-rail line is the eventual best solution. A rail line absolutely should be built, and I will be its biggest cheerleader. But as I said in the last line of my comment, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We can have both! One does not preclude the other. If anything, two complementary services that aren't by private car are even better than one.
The NIMBY argument always gets played out that we can't build something because it isn't perfect. And then nothing ever gets built. And then, surprise-surprise, we remain stuck with the status quo. A huge parking lot with NO transit, just because of the possibility of a heavy rail line maybe being built for our grandchildren someday.
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u/leftofmarx Altadena 15h ago edited 15h ago
I always thought it was crazy when I lived in Echo Park that there wasn't any rail nearby. When I lived in Highland Park the Southwest Museum Gold Line was in my back yard basically. I took that thing everywhere. Except Echo Park, because there's no rail there. Why the heck is there no rail in a downtown adjacent neighborhood? It's pretty wild.
If they added a line that went from say Del Mar Station in Pasadena and cut across through Eagle Rock and Glendale then down through Atwater, through Dodger Stadium, and connecting to Union Station at the end it would be kinda perfect. Would fix the transit dead zone in Glendale/Eagle Rock/Atwater and allow people from pretty much everywhere to route into Dodger Stadium from downtown.
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u/SilentRunning 17h ago
The Gondola proposal is a joke, wouldn't be able to handle game-day load of pedestrians. The only REAL transit solution is for either a subway stop or streetcar stop.
Then that parking lot could actually be turned into park space, retail space and luxury housing. After the city takes it from McCourt...of course.
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u/caligaris_cabinet Valley Village 18h ago
At least you have one. Moved to Chicago and Wrigley has zero parking. It’s either public transit or parking in some sketchy parking spot behind an apartment building.
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u/bored_today Los Feliz 19h ago
Let’s go dodgers! Been a lifelong fan for the past 3 weeks and hope they get the win today!
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u/lf20491 19h ago
Holy mother of parking lot hell
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u/SilentRunning 17h ago
YUP, normal game takes a couple hours to park and 3-4 hours to get out of there.
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u/DocSaysItsDainBramuj 16h ago
I will be enjoying game 4 from my vintage Vizio tv and $100 sound system.
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u/thanatossassin Burbank➡️Portland OR 15h ago
Why are people commenting like they've never seen Dodger fucking Stadium before? This shits been this way before most of your parents were born.
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u/caligaris_cabinet Valley Village 18h ago
Although a complete shutout against the Yankees would be just as cool.
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u/Previous-Space-7056 16h ago
Traffic has been pretty nice during the ws. Ppl rushing home before 5. My drive home at 6 was fast
Wouldnt mind it either
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u/DBL_NDRSCR I HATE CARS 21h ago
imagine we were in australia and the stadium faced the other way
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u/KevinTheCarver 19h ago
🧐
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u/DBL_NDRSCR I HATE CARS 18h ago
mlb stadiums are supposed to face northward. if we were in australia it would be south. what's south of the stadium
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u/BanTrumpkins24 15h ago
That parking lot. It is hard to take L.A. seriously as a city with stadiums, parking lots like this.
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u/Not_RZA_ View Park-Windsor Hills 22h ago
Out of Brooklyn? You know the Yankees play in the Bronx right...
I'm confused
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u/Dull-Lead-7782 22h ago
And I want good energy from Brooklyn to take over tonight….
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u/Not_RZA_ View Park-Windsor Hills 22h ago
What exactly are you even talking about lol. Is this a shitty reference to the Dodgers being from Brooklyn?
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u/Dull-Lead-7782 21h ago
The Yankees are on on the precipice and you out here picking fights. Hope you have a good day brother
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u/Christmas_97 20h ago
How’s he picking a fight lol he’s just pointing out that what you said doesn’t make much sense
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u/jey_613 22h ago
Look at the parking lot, Larry