We love the Hollywood Bowl however, sadly, the parking state of affairs on website is an actual nightmare. And should you nonetheless insist on driving, it’s solely about to worsen—although your transit-friendly alternate options could get a bit higher.
As reported by the Los Angeles Occasions, the venue will now not permit concertgoers to park in heaps B (the massive one on the Bowl facet of Highland Avenue) and C (the small triangular one subsequent to the 101). These areas will as an alternative be changed into transportation hubs to “streamline rideshare, bus and shuttle visitors.”
Much more particularly, lot B will now be devoted to shuttle pickup and drop-off and ADA accessible parking whereas lot C can be reserved for rideshares. In keeping with Deadline, the adjustments will find yourself reducing greater than 300 parking areas.
Although chances are you’ll be dreading how this may impression the already-dire stacked parking state of affairs, officers consider that the rearrangement will really alleviate a number of the congestion within the surrounding space.
“Individuals don’t like attending to the Bowl, however everybody loves the Bowl,” L.A. Phil’s interim CEO Daniel Tune stated to the Los Angeles Occasions. “So if there’s a barrier [for] somebody to have the ability to come to the Bowl, we’re going to attempt to repair that and we’re going to attempt to mitigate that as greatest as we will. We wouldn’t be rolling this out until we have been assured that long-term, long-game, that is going to be an enchancment of everybody that involves the Hollywood Bowl.”
For what it’s value, we’ve at all times advocated in opposition to driving to the Bowl. You possibly can choose to take one of many many Bowl shuttles across the county, significantly the one from the L.A. Zoo. And you’ll both park at or take the Metro to Ovation Hollywood, after which from there take the shuttle or stroll about three quarters of a mile to the venue.
Exhibits are already sporadically underway on the Bowl, together with this week’s Jimmy Buffett tribute, whereas the right summer season season kicks off in June—so prepare for social media to be flooded with everybody’s tackle the brand new parking preparations.
