Gondola project from Union Station to Dodger Stadium gets first approval from LA Metro

Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of Climate Resolve, speaks in favor of Frank McCourt’s Dodger Stadium gondola project during the Los Angeles Metro Board meeting’s public comment on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.

People protest Frank McCourt’s Dodger Stadium gondola project during the Los Angeles Metro Board meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. A proposed 1.2-mile aerial tramway that would transport baseball fans to Dodger Stadium via sky-high gondolas above Chinatown and other neighborhoods in northeast Los Angeles received a major boost on Thursday, Feb. 22.

“This doesn’t mean we are greenlighting it,” said Los Angeles City Council President and Metro board member Paul Krikorian. “The city of L.A. process will be robust. Land use approvals are in the hands of the City of Los Angeles.” An artist rendering of what a LA ART gondola would look like en route to Dodger Stadium from Los Angeles Union Station. The project has received pushback from Chinatown residents, city of LA and Homeboy Industries. Yet it received recent support from Coalition For Clean Air. However, LA City Council member Eunisses Hernandez on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2023, has introduced a motion asking for a traffic study before L.A. would take any action on the project.

First District Supervisor Hilda Solis and Metro board member pushed back against comments by project opponents, who told this news organization that those conditions are nothing more than lip service. “It provides guardrails. It enhances transparency and ensures the community their concerns must be addressed,” Solis said.

As the co-organizer of the first CicLAvia that inspires people to ride a bike, Jonathan Parfrey, founder and executive director of Climate Resolve, said the project would remove cars and reduce pollution. But it also will have a warming effect on riding public transit. “I believe the aerial gondola will be similarly inspirational for people to take public transit,” he told the board.

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