New football stadium would bring nearly 20,000 cars on game days
David Zahniser and Kate Linthicum
4/5/2012
Los Angeles Times
"A new downtown football stadium and nearby convention center would bring an estimated 19,560 additional cars to the neighborhood during weekend events, according to an environmental impact report released Thursday.
With "unavoidable significant impacts" expected at an array of downtown freeway offramps, stadium developer Anschutz Entertainment Group plans to provide an array of traffic measures, including $10 million to upgrade a light rail station on Pico Boulevard and $2.4 million to help Caltrans add a lane to the 101 Freeway between the four-level interchange and Alvarado Street.
The spike in traffic caused by such events as NFL games, international soccer matches or college football championship games would generate significant and "unavoidable" impacts at 20 intersections in the hour after Sunday events and at 42 intersections after an event on Saturdays..."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/downtown-football-stadium-aeg.html
Threaded Mode