If you’re interested, here’s a slightly more detailed account:

Since reading this article when it was initially published, I have biked to the stadium several times. Each time, I do what Damien did: I ask every parking attendant where the bikes racks are. I do it (1) because I have a bike and want to park it in the most appropriate place, and (2) I figure the more people that raise awareness of the fact that people actually do bike to games and it is a great way to get there, perhaps one day, there will be more of an emphasis on biking to the game, appropriate parking, and eventually we’ll see that long line of traffic on Sunset and feeder streets on game days slowly diminish.

It’s always great to see the parking attendants’ faces when I, bike in hand, as where the bike racks are. You would think I arrived on an banana-powered spaceship. They are confused, do not know of any “bike racks” or “bike parking” and have directed me to all types of varying areas around the stadium.

The consensus that I arrived at, and confirmed from several supervisors, is that you are free to park your bike anywhere near the gates. Several supervisors were actually very supportive of my transportation choice on a personal level. Pro tip: find the area where your seats are and lock up to a fence near the closest entry. You will likely only have to walk yards to get to your seat–as opposed to what seems to be the several-mile-long trek that car-fans are required to walk between their cars and the stadium. Obviously, you should be mindful of the foot and car traffic and make sure your bike is out of the way, but you also don’t want to place your bike in a hidden area out of the public’s or security’s view, which will give you the best chances of again seeing your bike after the game.

It’s been a good few weeks since I’ve biked to Dodger Stadium, so perhaps in that time frame they have issued a policy on bike parking, so riders are well advised to take the “Damien Approach” and ask a few of the parking attendants on the way in if there is any bike parking policy and/or location and what their thoughts are on where best to park a bike. Guaranteed to be amusing if you’ve got a sense a humor about the whole thing.

Yeah, the point of the article is that I knew where the bike racks were and they were nigh impossible to find. Hell, I had a Dodgers executive point it out to me on a map, and I had a guy at the front of the lot they’re located behind tell me they didn’t exist.

In short, if you’re going to bike, ask the traffic directors for LOT P. It’s at the gate directly behind that lot.

1) Took the Gold Line Metro Rail. Great train. Clean, comes reasonably often. (Side note: There’s no bike rack at the LA Lake St station though. Had my bike stolen there last time when I locked it to a metal bench.)
2) Got off in Chinatown Station.
3) Biked up to Yale St and took that little pedestrian bridge over the fwy.
4) WOW! What a hill. Parking attendants at the foot of the hill don’t seem to know what to do with a person on a bike. I say a prayer, cross some lanes, get honked at, flip someone off, and start my way up the hill.
5) Sh*t this is a big hill.
6) Pass the toll booths. Hehe suckers. No $15 parking for me. Man, I’m hot and sweaty though.
7) Top of the hill, say another prayer, car honks, flip them off, another car comes real close to make a point that bikes don’t belong at the Dodger’s Stadium.
8) Parking attendants don’t know where bike racks are. One radios in and says it’s in lot P. No one knows where this is.
9) At the gate, no one knows where a bike rack is. I say “Well, you have radios right? Someone has to know where this little bike rack is.” So one radios over one of the managers.
10) Now I’m talking with two people at the gate and a manger guy, and two cops come over. One of them confidently says “there’s no bike racks here.” I say “Yes there are, but no one can point me to where it is.” He looks annoyed.
11) I suggest “Can I lock my bike up out here? Off to the side? I’m okay with it if you are.”
12) Handlebar mustache cop looks like he’s about to object, so I cut him off “Look everyone, I’m not trying to be a dick here. I have a ticket, I could have driven to the game. I chose to ride a bike here because it never occurred to me that Dodger Stadium was unprepared for people coming on a bicycle. There’s a Metro station at the foot of the hill. I can’t be the first person to ride their bike up the hill to come watch a game. Are casual bike riders second class fans at the stadium?”
13) This resonates with the other (female) cop. She says, well, I think it’s fine if you lock your bike off to the side here in the smoking area.
14) I thank everyone. Ticket-takers look relieved. Handlebar mustache cop walks away.

So yes, it can be done. Just not very easily. And not without LA drivers being angry at you when you try and cross some lanes into the stadium.

Every time I take public transportation in LA I regret it. It takes twice as long, annoys me twice as much, and usually involves a lot of transfers. The Gold Line in Pasadena is an exception. So is the Blue Bus in Santa Monica. But as an example, try getting from Pasadena to Santa Monica using public transportation sometime. Try to find a way that will take less than 2 hours (including waiting time between trains and busses).

I’m trying LA! But you’re just too big for good/convenient public transportation systems. And people in LA treat cyclists pretty bad.

I am the son in the father and son picture. I will not rat you out as to what you were wearing or how graceful you appeared on your bike.

Our seats were on the field level so once we figured out that the bike racks were located on the top deck we just locked it up at a fence located a lot closer to us.

Those hills are killer though especially if you’re just riding a cruiser. Coming back was easier. Going downhill shaved 20 minutes off our commute home.

Total time going from Sherman Oaks to the Metro Red Line to Union Station to sitting in our seats was 1 hour 45 minutes.

Sitting through the 12-1 drubbing was the worst part of our trip.

http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/sf-giants-valet-bike-parking-81-games-per-year/

;)

Still, seriously, big ups for riding and pushing this issue! Tenacity, u haz it.

can we also talk about how this is the bare minimum in bicycle rack provisions? freaking wheel benders. give me a break.

they really broke the bank with an $800 rack.
http://www.bikeracks.com/html/stra__9_.html

at least get some inverted u’s in there.

Seriously, why did they move the rack? It looks like it’s in the far left wall – a much-less visible place. And they’ve reduced the capacity from 20 bikes to 10.

Still, it’s a good thing more people are biking it to the Stadium considering that even that father-son pair pictured above didn’t even lock their bikes in the rack yet.

But yeah, +1 on additional bike parking adjacent to other entrances to the Stadium. Maybe the organization assumes everyone who bikes to the Stadium can’t afford a car, and therefore can only afford Top Deck seats.

It isn’t that bad, but it isn’t that good, either.

I would recommend leaving and arriving when things are totally jam packed with cars. When there is less traffic, people drive totally out of control looking for parking or trying to escape from the stadium parking lot. It was really dangerous-feeling the one time I left the ballpark and there wasn’t much traffic.

Good to know other people are using the rack too, although it looks like they moved the thing towards the wall, whereas when the Militant checked it out right before the start of the season, it was right in the middle of the little nook there. Having it against the wall reduces the capacity of the rack in half.