Developer Claims That Public Transit Works For Baseball, But Not Football Fans

An executive of Majestic Realty, one of the developers bidding to construct an NFL stadium in Los Angeles, cited sprawl in the City of Industry as an advantage over AEG's proposal to build a stadium in downtown LA.

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April 5, 2011, 10:00 AM PDT

By Victor Negrete

From LA Streets Blog:

"At a Thursday panel organized by the Pat Brown Institute, Majestic's John Semcken talked about growing up in New York and taking the train to Yankees games. He doesn't see the same happening for football."

"I think a football stadium is a different animal," he said. "People don't take mass transit to football games."

In this article Damien Newton of LA Streets Blog addresses this claim and makes suggestions for both developers to build a stadium that is easily accessible to the public.

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