A gondola carrying thousands of Dodgers fans up, over and across downtown Los Angeles and up to Chavez Ravine moved one step closer to becoming a reality today.

LA's Metro Board gave their initial sign-off on the controversial gondola project, but there are a lot of steps yet to be fulfilled before the gondolas go airborne.

Joe Linton is the editor of Streetsblog LA, he was at the Metro meeting today.

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