LA Traffic Is Expected To Be So Bad For Game 1 Of the World Series That The LA Metro Is Asking Fans To Make A 1.2 Mile Walk From A Nearby Train Station To The Game
Los Angeles is officially the sports capital of the world starting on Friday, Game 1 of Yankees - Dodgers kicks off in what could be the biggest and most watched World Series ever. But it's not only the Dodgers that will have a packed house on Friday night, LA is hosting 5 sporting events all within miles of each other, all legit events too. Dodgers - Yankees, there's a concert at the new state-of-the-art Intuit Dome, USC at home, Sofi Stadium is hosting a big time high school football game, and Bronny and Papa have a game for the Lakers downtown. 5 major sporting events all kicking off within a few hours of each other. Crazy time to be a sports fan in LA, whole place has to be buzzing. Just think of the amount of people who will be out and about bouncing around to all these events, has to be an inane amount of people. How in the hell is transportation going to work? Everyone knows that the 305 is already jammed up, I'd except all roads to be a parking lot. The Dodgers and the LA Metro are trying to get out ahead of that and have already put out public service announcements asking Dodgers fans to WALK to the game. Don't worry, it's only a 25 minutes walk back to the Metro station in Chinatown! About a 1.2 mile trek! 25 minutes through the sea of Dodger blue in that parking lot, what could go wrong? There's usually a shuttle that takes folks there but think about how crowded that will be. Just an insane scene this sounds like.
This is a crazy ask! Look at that pathway, how can any large group of fans fit on that? How many people are they expecting to walk there? 10,000? 20,000? Those walkways will be absolutely jammed. Me thinks it will take much longer to make that walk at night with 2 rowdy fanbases, no shot this is a sane thing to do. Plus the game is so expensive, if you bought tickets for $1,400 each you aren't even entertaining the thought of walking 25+ minutes to get there after taking the metro. Metro and World Series ticket holders aren't the same crowd, I know that for a fact. How do they expect the parking lot to run with a sea of people making their way down a painted walkway? That seems like a bad time waiting to happen. Alcohol, angry fans, seas of people, one fanbase losing a World Series game, you're begging for something bad to happen.
This is how people are supposed to get to the station in Chinatown? That's a joke, right? And seriously, what about elderly fans? Kids going to the game, someone in a wheelchair or crutches? Nothing about that walks seems safe for anyone with any physical disabilities or issues. And how about these quotes from Damien Kevitt, an executive director for Streets Are For Everyone (S.A.F.E).
"There's some sketchy spots along that walk there, so it's probably not a walk that everyone would be comfortable with. There's some crossings there that are a little bit on the sketchy side from a road safety perspective," said Kevitt. "You have a lot of cars leaving the stadium at the same time. You have a lot of people leaving the stadium and unfortunately some people are drinking while they're at the stadium. That could be some tricky situations there, especially where you've got crossings."
Even the dude who helps run S.A.F.E. was like "Oh yeah, there are some tough stretches there, good luck with that boys!". Telling them all to watch out for the tricky situations, basically just telling everyone "good luck!". WILD quotes there. Sounds like it could be a long night for fans if they drive or make the walk from the metro, the exact last thing you want after watching your team drop game 1 of a World Series is make a mile walk back to the metro. Going to be a wild scene as this game lets out, I'm sure we'll get some clips from it. LA is going to be a madhouse with all these events, should be a great night….until you have to leave. Real first world problems.