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.
Oh, it's even better than just evicting mexicans. They did so under the pretence of building public housing. After the evictions they dropped the plan and built a privately owned stadium instead.
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.
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?
Parking garages are expensive. You can spend $30,000 to build a space... At $50 a game you'd pay it off in 7.5 seasons, not controlling for maintenance and operating costs.
Now the trend is to build entertainment districts around venues... Which creates more revenue per square foot, so you'll start to see more garages going up.
A parking garage couldn't possibly cost more than a subway system, especially when you factor in the ongoing costs of operations, security, maintenance, etc. A parking garage is a big static building, a subway is an entire SYSTEM of many moving parts.
I suspect that this massive subway system will be excavated by Musk's stupid Boring Company, which is based in LA. Just another massive taxpayer giveaway to the richest man on history.
All so massively unhealthy sedentary blobs can go hoot and holler at drug-enhanced millionaires playing a poor child's pastime while enriching the billionaire owners by buying 25$ hot dogs made of factory farmed animals huddled ten to the square foot.
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.
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.
This image makes the stadium look like its ontop of a giant dome lol.
Anyways, for people asking about car parks and such, LA is notorious even by american standards for being an absolutely unfathomably large sprawling paved area. Just think of the biggest suburban sprawl possible and thats LA.
62 Comments
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 141 pts · 80d
What in the concrete hellscape is this?
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 84 pts · 80d
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.
upbeatdingo@piefed.world · 54 pts · 80d
Also, it comes with the story of Chavez Ravine which was forcefully evicted to make way for the stadium.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 80d
Now, let me guess what kind of people lived there...
HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 24 pts · 80d
Ding ding ding
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 80d
What a complete and utter surprise.
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
Oh, it's even better than just evicting mexicans. They did so under the pretence of building public housing. After the evictions they dropped the plan and built a privately owned stadium instead.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 80d
LA and bulldozing neighborhoods is sadly a tale as old as time
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 79d
LA is thinking of doing a gondola
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day · 63 pts · 80d
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.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 80d
70mph limit
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
They should have drive in stadiums by now, it's the obvious thing to do.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 80d
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 80d
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.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 80d
What this place needs is obviously more car lanes.
iocase@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 79d
The American mind cannot comprehend transportation unless it involves cars somehow
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 8 pts · 79d
They apparently cannot also comprehend multi storey Carparks.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 80d
What a gigantic waste of space. Never knew how large this stadium is.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social · 8 pts · 80d
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?
MadBigote@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 79d
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.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
Parking garages are expensive. You can spend $30,000 to build a space... At $50 a game you'd pay it off in 7.5 seasons, not controlling for maintenance and operating costs.
Now the trend is to build entertainment districts around venues... Which creates more revenue per square foot, so you'll start to see more garages going up.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 78d
A parking garage couldn't possibly cost more than a subway system, especially when you factor in the ongoing costs of operations, security, maintenance, etc. A parking garage is a big static building, a subway is an entire SYSTEM of many moving parts.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 70d
Yeah, I get it. The question was why did they build massive surface lots instead of garages. The answer is looking at historic decision-making.
The stupidity of future decisions is clear
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 70d
I suspect that this massive subway system will be excavated by Musk's stupid Boring Company, which is based in LA. Just another massive taxpayer giveaway to the richest man on history.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 80d
Uhhhh, why haven’t they done underground parking?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 80d
That might make line go up more slowly.
RustyShackleford@piefed.social · 12 pts · 79d
I would wager Earthquakes would be one reason.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
LA has plenty of underground parking, including at the children's hospital, so I don't think that it's that.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 78d
All so massively unhealthy sedentary blobs can go hoot and holler at drug-enhanced millionaires playing a poor child's pastime while enriching the billionaire owners by buying 25$ hot dogs made of factory farmed animals huddled ten to the square foot.
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
For the emperor! /s
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 80d
🎵 Pave paradise
🎵 And put up a parking lot
Mac@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 79d
Paradiseminority communitiescarpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 79d
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
falcunculus@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 79d
Reading the Sharks president's arguments felt like my brain was turning to slurry.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 78d
How about a subway from LA to the stadium?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 78d
Maybe this is step 1 in tricking car brains to support public transport
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
Subway from stadium parking to the stadium is much cheaper
Fontasia@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 78d
snoons@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 80d
What a shithole...
H1AA6329S@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
Wow. US are truly fucked
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 79d
nottheonion
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 78d
Also, c/fuckcars
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
Gotta get to the stadium early to avoid needing to park in the next state.
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
It's like when Homer parked at work but the parking spot was right next to his back yard
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 79d
Disneyland has trams to take you from the parking lots to the entrance of the park. This is the next iteration.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 78d
Which was paid for by Disney, not taxpayers.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
So turns out public transport is great. As long as it's to and from parking lots.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 80d
They gave up on the gondola?
errer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 79d
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.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 79d
An extention of some light or heavy rail line would be good
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 79d
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.
errer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 79d
That may be, I’m just unsure on the cost differential. Feels like an underground line would be more expensive, but IDK.
davetortoise@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 78d
That is so vile
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 78d
This image makes the stadium look like its ontop of a giant dome lol.
Anyways, for people asking about car parks and such, LA is notorious even by american standards for being an absolutely unfathomably large sprawling paved area. Just think of the biggest suburban sprawl possible and thats LA.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
At some point put in a multistory. Or forget the car park and just run a train or bus service to the stadium.
sangeteria@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 79d
Something very yonic and sapphic about this picture... I see why lesbians love softball
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 78d
Get a room.
sangeteria@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 77d
I'm a gay man I just appreciate lesbians, they're cool
dan69@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 79d
Actually they’ll be planning to have an entire exit path to all major interior and exterior highway arteries 🔨 🛣️
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 78d
Lemme guess, Elon is going to dig the holes for it with his Boring Company. He already has a quarter mile Test Tunnel.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
Uh-oh. Now I am starting to understand just how massively things are fucked there
Fontasia@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 78d