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    Aerial gondola at Dodger Stadium sparks fears of accelerated gentrification in LA neighborhood

    by Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times Mar 24, 2022 5 minutes
    Phyllis Ling, left, and sister Tany Ling, who live along the 400 block of Savoy Street, along with other residents are opposed to the proposed Dodger Stadium gondola that will run past their homes, on March 17, 2022, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — With their Chinatown home boxed in by a freeway entrance, apartment buildings, a high school and a major boulevard to downtown Los Angeles, Phyllis and Tany Ling get the full cacophony of urban life from every direction but up.

    Never could the sisters have imagined a project proposed directly above their home.

    Metro is helping to plan an aerial gondola system to whisk baseball fans and concertgoers from Union Station to Dodger Stadium in what it says would be a mere seven-minute trip. Funded by former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, the project would run about 40 feet above the Lings’ century-old Victorian cottage — meaning that every 30 seconds on game days, some 40 people packed in a tram would pass outside their living room window.

    “It’s just another way that we can’t own our neighborhood and feel safe and quiet here because literally you have something

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