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A rendering shows a gondola car carrying passengers from Union Station to Dodger Stadium. Photo by: Aerial Rapid Transit Technologies LLC  #DodgerStadium #Dodgers #Gondola #LosAngeles #Metro #UnionStation Thousands of baseball fans have thought longingly of visiting Chavez Ravine without fighting through snarled, rush-hour traffic in a car or on a bus. Now, a company funded by former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has proposed a possible solution: a gondola lift that would whisk passengers from Union Station to Dodger Stadium by air in five minutes. It's an unorthodox proposal in a city accustomed to ideas that flare up and die out. But, backers say, the plan is for real. "Los Angeles is a gorgeous city," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who plans to announce the project Thursday at a Metropolitan Transportation Authority meeting. "It lays out at night like this bed of jewels. This isn't something that's just about Dodgers ga...

#Bus #Graffiti #Metro #Subway #Upholstery #LosAngelesMetro When a bedbug crawled off the Metro subway seat and onto his shorts, Chris Rusak realized that the brightly patterned fabric could camouflage a lot more than dirt. With a shiver of horror, Rusak flicked the bug off and jumped to his feet in the subway car. After blurting several unprintable epithets, he vowed to never sit down on the Metro again. “And I haven’t,” said Rusak, 39, a perfume designer and visual artist who lives near MacArthur Park. “Sometimes you’re tired, or you don't feel good, and you just want to sit down. But you know what? It isn’t worth it.” For decades, Metro’s fuzzy fabric seats — rare among major U.S. transit systems — have drawn fascination and disgust from bus and train riders. Novice passengers learn quickly, and often the hard way, to check seats for liquids before sitting down, and to avoid the one unoccupied seat in a crowded car. But not for much longer. Propelled by years ...