Chavez Ravine funds go elsewhere

County money intended to build roads into Dodger Stadium will be diverted to other projects.

Wait a minute! IMDB says this is W.R. Burnett’s "Asphalt Jungle" turned into a western. 

By Keith Thursby
Times staff writer

The Board of Supervisors found more than a million reasons not to wait for the Chavez Ravine legal mess to be settled.

With plans for a new baseball stadium still delayed in the courts, the supervisors agreed to use $1,350,000 allocated to build roads leading into the ballpark elsewhere in the county.

Supervisor Frank G. Bonelli said his proposal "does not indicate lack of faith that the Dodgers will ultimately have a ballpark" but that "they may be in the courts for years and meanwhile we need the roads in other sections of the county."

The plan was to split the money equally in the five supervisors’ districts. Bonelli asked the road department to provide a list of the most needed projects.

A short story in The Times noted that Supervisor John Anson Ford said his district didn’t need any new roads. Bonelli and Supervisor Warren Dorn, The Times reported, both said they could make good use of Ford’s share.

keith.thursby@latimes.com