THE Los Angeles Dodgers are back in the World Series this year, and LA wants fans to walk to the game.
That’s right, one of the most un-walkable cities in the country thinks fans can walk to and from Los Angeles Dodgers games.
The Los Angeles Metro is trying to get fans to walk home from Dodgers games[/caption]
Dodger Stadium causes massive amounts of congestion from fans driving to games[/caption]
Metro, LA’s transit agency, posted a video on Facebook giving fans instructions on how they can walk to the stadium from the closest Metro station.
“Yes you can! (walk to Metro rail after Dodgers games),” the caption of the video reads.
The video shows satellite images of Dodger Stadium and the surrounding areas, and creates a blue line marking the route fans should take.
In the video, a voiceover explains that a fan can walk from a bleacher seat to the Chinatown A Line stop in just 25 minutes.
However, the route includes multiple crosswalks, changes of directions, and even a highway to get to the station.
To start, the route has fans making their way through the massive parking lots that surround Dodger Stadium before getting to any walkways.
That involves traversing a minefield of cars trying to escape the rush hour traffic that inflates when Dodgers games get out. This part of the route has no sidewalk for fans to walk on.
After navigating through the parking lot, fans make their way to a crosswalk with no traffic light before having to funnel into a narrow pedestrian bridge to get across a freeway.
Once that segment of the walk is complete, fans still have a long walk through LA to get into Chinatown and make it to the Metro station.
Much of the walk doesn’t have any lighting or protection from traffic, and none of it is wheelchair accessable.
The one thing the video boasts of the route is that “It’s all downhill!”
While Metro claims the walk takes only 25 minutes, with pedestrian traffic and the walk being over a mile in distance, it could probably take upwards of an hour to get to the Metro station.
Many fans were quick to point out how the walk isn’t the best option for them to get home, and shared in the comments of the video.
“Looks like a video game where you’re trying to stay alive,” one fan said.
“That is not practical,” another fan said.
“Haha I wouldn’t even drive that and feel safe,” a third fan said.
“Just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you should,” a fourth fan said.
The walking route is a strange thing for Metro to promote because they already have pedestrian-friendly options for Dodgers fans.
A bus line called the Dodger Stadium Express is free for fans with tickets to that day’s game. The bus leaves from Union Station, the major transit hub in downtown LA.
However, Metro claims the line is too popular at this point and congestion has caused major delays.
In response, the Metro board approved a $500 million gondola to carry fans from Chinatown to Dodger Stadium.
That project likely won’t be completed until 2028.
Metro claims that fans can walk out of the stadium in just 25 minutes[/caption]
