The environmental impact report, which must be approved by the City Council, assumes that more than 18% of ticket buyers would show up at weekend events without using cars. For weekday games, that figure would reach 27%.
Leiweke's plans were greeted skeptically by Victor Citrin, who lives near the proposed stadium site and AEG's L.A. Live entertainment complex. Citrin said the environmental impact report, which runs 10,000 pages and cost $27 million, relies on overly upbeat transit ridership assumptions while downplaying the number of cars that would inundate his Pico-Union neighborhood.
"This is Los Angeles. This city was built around the car," he said. "For somebody to come here from Buena Park on public transit — I don't think it's going to happen."
It's one of those things that everybody believes, but it's wrong. (Much of) LA grew up around the streetcar. It's why it's pretty dense though not quite as dense as cities that grew up around people walking everywhere.