New York, LA race from World Series to subways, freeways and AI

The New York-Los Angeles rivalry may have existed before the Brooklyn Dodgers folded and moved west in 1958, but that seismic shift didn’t help. America’s two biggest cities are at it again, baseball is at the forefront. The Big Apple and The City of Angels are currently going head-to-head in the World Series (and the Dodgers v. the Yankees, with Game 5 tonight in New York; the Dodgers lead 3-1), but it’s also weeks away online for platforms, accessibility, and transportation.

Los Angeles Metro, which operates the city’s bus and train lines, inadvertently got into it earlier this month when the agency tweeted a video detailing how to get to Dodger Stadium. The stadium is cut from the city’s train lines and sits on a hill that is notoriously difficult to navigate in the Echo Park area.

New Yorkers enjoy a 25-minute walk that involves weaving past impatient drivers and crossing rutted, narrow streets before reaching the Chinatown A Line station. Metro fended off some criticism by pointing to its Dodger Express service, a free bus that runs from two different parts of the city. Buses are popular, but far from efficient, often stuck in traffic outside the stadium (buses have dedicated routes before games).

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Although there is a proposal to build a gondola (yes, a gondola) from LA’s Union Station to Dodger Stadium, the lack of direct transportation is a bugaboo for Los Angeles, which has managed to build 109 miles of rail in 34 years, connects. places like Hollywood, Inglewood, Santa Monica, and Downtown LA (Beverly Hills will get a subway stop next year). While many Angelenos make the tough commute work, according to the New York TimesYankees fans benefit from a strong New York system, only having to walk a few hundred feet from the 161st St./Yankee Stadium station in the Bronx that serves the D and 4 lines.

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On Monday, the gun was fired in New York by Eric Spillman, a reporter at KTLA in Los Angeles.

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Of course, New York had to react. It wasn’t from the MTA, but the NYC DOT, which oversees all public transportation in the big city. And they brought AI to it!

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We can all agree that both cities have pluses and minuses – and it’s really fun to have Americans argue about something that doesn’t involve politics. In the meantime, people can cruise into the Bronx for Wednesday night’s game at Yankee Stadium. If the Yanks win, the Series returns to LA, where fans can lace up their walking shoes and dream of that gondola.