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But Sarzynski says it will take several years to shift significant numbers of NFL ticket holders to mass transit. "AEG may be fighting an uphill battle until the time when the L.A. region is better served by convenient transit," she says. "AEG would need to be working closely with transit providers and planners when they design the site and to ensure proper service to the site, once constructed."
Yet Metro, which has poured billions of dollars into mass transit, is losing market share to private cars in the region — and is known for its years of construction delays and cost overruns.
James Moore, USC professor and director of the school's Transportation Engineering Program, says no neutral outcome is possible when it comes to traffic.
"On the strictly technical question, 'Can one build a 72,000-seat event generator and then mitigate traffic impacts sufficiently that the transportation level of service experienced prior to construction of the facility would be attained after the event generator is completed?' the answer is no," Moore says. "The technology does not exist. It is not available at any cost."
Jennifer Regan, AEG's global sustainability director, says the firm will offer mass-transit users incentives such as reduced prices at stadium stores and food courts, and perhaps even free transit. She says that effort will be helped by Metro's Blue Line station a few blocks from Farmers Field, the Gold Line station from downtown to the San Gabriel Valley, and park-and-rides that might be created in outlying areas. She also cites the much-delayed Expo Line from Santa Monica — but whether it will be open by 2016 is unknown.
For all these reasons, AEG probably will buy carbon credits — essentially paying for environmental fixes in a far-off locale that don't benefit L.A. (AEG will be hard-pressed to clean up any polluters near downtown, where its own carbon load will affect the atmosphere and community, because, as Regan notes, "The 'market' is very small right now.")
SB 292 is a grab-bag of unproven ideas: reducing car trips, instituting on-site energy production using natural gas, installing parking-garage solar panels and, says AEG land-use attorney Dale Goldsmith, "something as simple as planting trees."
Vinnikov, the climate-change expert, says the promises boil down to political theater and platitudes offered amidst a jobs recession, bearing no relation to science. What's going on, he says, is that "If someone is going to build a stadium and employ people, that is what's important."
Reach the writer at davidfutch@ roadrunner.com.
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Why does the LA weekly keep spouting this left-wing doom and gloom crap? This is the same kind of thinking that brought california 12% + unemployment. Have you ever considered supporting anything that's good for the city?
So typical of left-wingers to wring their hands over every little thing instead of enjoying the finer things in life. Give me football or give me death.
Just saw your post Big Mike. You must be a real cretin. Football over the environment? Then again AEG seems to prefer the same things you do. Some scientist should do an anthropological study on your family, at least a gene mapping, so he can determine where you lost the gene for intelligence. Even if the scientist did discover what went wrong, he'll never be able to fix stupid.
Mr. Glub -- couldn't you find a better nom de plume -- I hope you're being facetious. Farmers Field the center of a regional rail network?!? What are you smokin' cause I want some. The Weekly isn't poo-pooing public transit. The Weekly wonders why the city didn't do their job to vet this deal before signing off without knowing the true cost to taxpayers. If, Mr. Glub, you think people who pay $500 for a ticket to a game are going to ride a bus or Metro from the West Side, then you're smokin' some high-quality stuff.
Carbon, shmarben. People, we're talking FOOTBALL here. LA will never be a world-class city without a football team. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee! We need football and all this crap about pollution is just a way to keep us from getting the football team we deserve.
I like how L.A. Weekly has taken to sowing doubt about public transit at every possible opportunity. When Farmers field is open, it will be at the center of a regional rail network that spans from Ventura to San Diego and at the center of a robust local transit network with fast, frequent trains running throughout the L.A. area.
This is just anti-Farmers Field propaganda. Why are you so anti-jobs? Do you understand what unemployment is in L.A.? Haters.
Given that Carbon is the 6th element on the periodic table and is one of the most malleable of the simple elements, it is either folly or a lie to offer any pretense whatsoever that we can have an economy without using it in all its compound forms. What is the source of this madness?
If AEG builds the stadium in that fragile spot, traffic would grind to a standstill and a lot of extra pollution would be generating from cars idling, smoke spewing from their tailpipies, going nowhere. The stadium would draw traffic from the suburbs, increasing the amount of vehicle emissions no matter what. AEG would have to buy a tremendous amount of carbon credits to offset that. They're marketing department is full of lies. They will never create a carbon neutral stadium. Governor Brown should veto SB 292 and allow the normal environmental review process without special shortcuts for AEG. They should not get their own laws just because they have a lot of lobbyists in Sacramento. That is corrupt.
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