Commentary: What are the motives behind Frank McCourt's Dodger Stadium gondola plan?
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Commentary: What are the motives behind Frank McCourt's Dodger Stadium gondola plan?
"If you're looking for a place to catch the Dodgers game, there's a pizza place not too far from Dodger Stadium called LaSorted's. If you know, you know. If you don't know, this probably is not your place. The walls are almost entirely covered in Dodgers memorabilia: yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazine covers, advertisements, record albums, even a thermometer reading "1988 World Champions," with portraits of Vin Scully, Don Drysdale and Ross Porter."
"For now, you take a shuttle bus from Union Station. That shuttle - and a sister shuttle from the South Bay - served a record 400,000 riders this season, according to Metro. That's one rider for every 10 tickets the Dodgers sold. Frank McCourt, the former Dodgers owner, believes he can do better. In 2018, McCourt first pitched a gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium, eventually promising free rides for fans."
LaSorted's sits near Dodger Stadium as a pizza spot decorated wall-to-wall with Dodgers memorabilia, including yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazine covers, advertisements, record albums and a thermometer reading "1988 World Champions" with portraits of Vin Scully, Don Drysdale and Ross Porter. The menu features a Mookie pizza topped with three cheeses, garlic, mushrooms and mushroom cream, named after Mookie Betts. Los Angeles lacks direct mass-transit access to Dodger Stadium, requiring shuttles from Union Station that carried a record 400,000 riders this season. Former owner Frank McCourt proposed a gondola from Union Station to the stadium, but Chinatown residents protested safety, park damage and traffic concerns.
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