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Fans leaving Oakland Athletics game to catch a train
Image by LA Wad
Maybe this is the Angeleno in me talking — where the Dodgers and the city of Los Angeles make no provision to provide any kind of ballpark transportation — but seeing a sight like this was very impressive. This is what we should try to create at Chavez Ravine, even if only with buses. The point is, give people the option of alternative transportation and they will take it. Plus, Echo Park will like the Dodgers as a neighbor.
This is a bridge that connects the Coliseum/Airport BART station with Oakland Alameda County Coliseum. Those tracks beneath the bridge are for the Amtrak services that also serve the BART station.
Not only were thousands of fans using BART to go to and from the Athletics game, but the large parking lot around the Coliseum had only a few hundred cars. Most fans took a train. In fact, there were so many people that there was a queue of about 2 minutes at each end of the bridge for people to cross and clear the fare gates.
BART also is a commercial sponsor of the Oakland A’s. This Wednesday afternoon game was sponsored by the transit system with a few tickets going for ! The announced attendance was a little more than 30,000. Oakland had better attendance than a San Francisco Giants game on the same night!
If anyone is curious, the A’s — one of the bottom feeders of Major League Baseball this season — lost to the Seattle Mariners 6-1.
NYC: Statues on Parade: Oakland Athletics
Image by wallyg
To celebrate the 2008 Major League Baseball All Star Game, which took place in Yankee Stadium, in its final season, on July 15, 2008, Major League Baseball launched "Statues on Parade." Forty-two replicas of the Statue of Liberty were stationed around the city leading up to the game–each uniquely designed with bold graphics and colors featuring each of the 30 Major League Baseball clubs, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Giants, the American League, the National League, four All-Star statues and statues commemorating the final season of Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium. The 8½ feet tall, 250-pound statues are made of resin and rest on a 530-pound cement base.
The Oakland Athletics statue stood outside 919 Third Avenue at 56th Street.
For other statues from Statues of Liberty on Parade, check my tag StatuesofLibertyonParade
NYC: Statues on Parade: Oakland Athletics
Image by wallyg
To celebrate the 2008 Major League Baseball All Star Game, which took place in Yankee Stadium, in its final season, on July 15, 2008, Major League Baseball launched "Statues on Parade." Forty-two replicas of the Statue of Liberty were stationed around the city leading up to the game–each uniquely designed with bold graphics and colors featuring each of the 30 Major League Baseball clubs, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Giants, the American League, the National League, four All-Star statues and statues commemorating the final season of Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium. The 8½ feet tall, 250-pound statues are made of resin and rest on a 530-pound cement base.
The Oakland Athletics statue stood outside 919 Third Avenue at 56th Street.
For other statues from Statues of Liberty on Parade, check my tag StatuesofLibertyonParade
