Environmental advocates are suing Metro for approving planning documents for a proposed gondola project that would run from Union Station to Dodger Stadium.
City News ServiceEnvironmental advocates are suing Metro for approving planning documents for a proposed gondola project that would run from Union Station to Dodger Stadium, and they are asking for the environmental impact report Metro certified to be thrown out.
"The board's action ignores 20 years of community advocacy that went into building a park in a neighborhood in dire need of green space and recreational opportunities and essentially gifts the public's land and air rights to a billionaire for an illegal commercial exploitation.
On the alliance's claim the Los Angeles State Historic Park would be impacted, Click said the easements from the project would be located adjacent to the existing Metro light rail tracks on the edge of the park. The proposed station takes up just ".1% of the park's footprint -- a narrow space adjacent to Spring Street and the A Line."
As part of its approval, Metro's Board of Directors also signed off on a community benefits agreement, placing about 30 conditions on the project. If those conditions are not met, Metro will have the ability to revoke permissions and use of its land. The project would include a station at the southernmost entrance of Los Angeles State Historic Park, as well as pedestrian and landscape improvements. The project would run above Chinatown, Mission Junction, Elysian Park and Solano Canyon.
ZET has billed the project as environmentally friendly and aid in reducing traffic on streets around the stadium and freeways heading there by removing as many as 3,000 cars, leading to a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, about 166,653 metric tons of emissions.
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