One transit option should be plenty!!!

Look at you, moving goalposts to string a gondola up

What goalpost did I move? Do you also oppose CAHSR because you can take a few buses from SF to LA? The difference between the gondola and CAHSR is our tax dollars aren’t funding the gondola!

You started out with “god forbid LA encourage transit” then when I pointed out that there is transit, said it wasn’t enough & now seem to think gondolas are the best & only option, acting like the 2nd coming of hyperloop bros

Gondolas are a real thing in other countries, it’s not crazy (unlike hyperloop). In all sincerity, it’s morally repugnant that anyone opposes legislation in our state for limiting environmental reviews *for transit projects* to 12 months. Can’t stand McCourt, but this was the wrong decision

The problem with the gondola as transit is that it is specifically taking spectators to a ball game. 50K people want to get there at the same time, and leave at the same time. They don't want to wait in line to take a gondola 2 dozen at a time, and you can't add gondola frequency like a train or bus

That’s a good reason for us to not fund it with tax dollars, not to prevent a private org from building one. Less than 5% of Dodgers game attendees take the bus. We don’t need to solve for “how to get 50k spectators on transit”, we need to solve for “how to get more than 2-3k out of cars”

It’s also a pretty good reason not to bypass existing rules and regulations to build this inefficient boondoggle, which is what the legislation McCourt was trying to push through would have done. I am pro-transit but that doesn’t mean I have to support another billionaire vanity project.

The rules and regulations we have in place in California that allow unlimited litigation for CEQA on *transit projects* are the reason CAHSR is decades delayed (among others). If McCourt wants to spend *private money* to build a method of transit that replaces cars, we should all let him!

If he wants to build it AND fund its operation, that’s one thing, but (contra Roger Rabbit) the reason we lost streetcars is they were built to sell suburbs & developers stopped paying to maintain them after the lots were sold. We don’t have to make that mistake again!

There are many legitimate public concerns created when a project like this is built in a community that go well beyond who is paying for it. Traffic impacts & gentrification in Chinatown, noise & light pollution, the privacy of people living under the thing etc. are all worth serious consideration.