Aerial of Dodger Stadium shows Los Angeles Angels defeating Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 to 2, before a capacity crowd.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are heading back to the World Series for the fourth time since 2017, giving Metro (LA’s giant transit agency) the perfect opportunity to post a video showing off Dodger Stadium’s easy access to nearby public transit.
Except, well, it’s actually not very easy at all.
“Yes you can! (walk to Metro rail after Dodgers games),” reads the opening caption of a TikTok-style voiceover video posted to social media by the public transit agency on Oct. 13 and again on Oct. 19. What follows is a sweeping satellite map view that shows, over the course of 25-plus minutes in walking time, what it would really take to maneuver from a bleacher seat to the Chinatown rail stop on the A Line. With a dozen or so direction changes, multple crosswalks to navigate and one freeway to traverse, needless to say, it’s not quite so simple.
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For starters, the video has postgame fans weaving through the stadium’s massive and notoriously hellish parking lot, which — on a game day — will require........