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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 30: A car enters the Dodger Stadium parking lots from Sunset Gate A before game one of the National League Wild Card Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium on September 30, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images) | Getty Images Part of the discussion about the Dodgers Gondola project, which has been largely overlooked to date, concerns what will happen to the parking lots at Dodger Stadium after the project is completed, which is a large if, at this point. As we have covered, the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&Rs) of Dodger Stadium Section 2.

1. 1, commercial development of the parking lots is wholly dependent on getting mass transportation (as defined in Section 5. 1.

2), “as including, without limitation, a subway or a lightrail [sic]”) servicing Dodger Stadium. How a gondola is actually a subway or light rail is a question for another day. Five years ago, no one would have guessed that the terms ejusdem generis or statutory construction would show up at True Blue LA, but the times they are a-changin .

’ Rather than discuss the operation of a gondola system, whose costs are still entirely unknown at this point, or Dodger Stadium Express, whose costs are known to the penny for the next three seasons — a topic we will cover next time, it is time to take a step back. Everyone is focused on the impending lockout of the sport this coming December, with good reason, but if you take a step back, from the Dodge rs’ perspective, the issues underlying the lockout and the Dodgers Gondola project are really the same story, just told from different perspectives. The Dodgers are in no rush to develop the parking lots, but given the Gondola’s likely marginal impact on stadium traffic, there is no logical reason to build the bloody thing unless one were trying to unlock commercial development at Dodger Stadium.