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Friday, January 23, 2009 |
LA City Council Decries Dodgers' Trolley Tightness
blogdowntown updates us on the funding stalemate with the Dodger trolley:
Councilman Bill Rosendahl was particularly incensed that the Dodgers refused to help bear the costs of service in 2008. "I just think it's a cheap shot that a firm as successful as [the Dodgers] doesn't come up with the funds," he said during a June Transportation committee meeting.The Dodgers are looking at advertising sponsorships as a way to pay for the service, but refuse to pay for it themselves.While charging a fare would raise some revenue, LADOT says that the amount would fall far short of the cost of service. In its projections, LADOT concludes that $50,000 - $120,000 could be raised by charging a fare of $1 to $3. Given 81 home games, the higher of those ridership numbers would give an average of 617 fares per game. The 2008 service averaged roughly 700 riders.
Comments:
How typically McCourt. As I said when this story first surfaced a month or two ago, it's sadly ironic that the shuttle may be doomed because it was a success. And from their perspective, why should the McCourts spend money to enable fans to avoid paying them the $15 for parking? To the narrow and penny-pinching minds of the McCourts, the stadium shuttle is a lose-lose proposition: it costs them money and deprives them of (apparently needed) revenue.
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