Even if they build the next seven wonders of the world in downtown Los Angeles, how much traffic would you be willing to brave to get there?

Stories like this about the revitalization of downtown Los Angeles always seem to ignore the issue of transporting people into the bottleneck at the city's heart. Everyone talks about attracting more people to downtown, but no one seems to talk about how the attracted will get there.

Is this because there is an expectation that mixed-use development and hotels will attract people to live and vacation downtown, eliminating the need for them to come and go? Or is the media just overlooking the transportation issue?

As for a Dodger connection ... it's easy enough to see that dollars devoted to easing transit to and from Dodger Stadium would encourage people to come more often. But beyond that occasional Union Station shuttlebus - the height of convenience, I'm sure - you don't hear word one about improvement.

Paging Bob Timmermann ...