The contentious plan, first proposed in 2018 by Frank McCourt, then owner of the city’s Major League Baseball club Los Angeles Dodgers, has polarised opinion in the city.

Former Mayor Eric Garcetti championed the project on the Board of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The seven-minute, 1.2-mile ride would ferry up to 5,000 people an hour from Union Station to Dodger Stadium in an attempt to reduce traffic and carbon emissions.

But incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has replaced Garcetti on the Authority's Board, has yet to take a position on the electric-powered transport although she has put a stop to some of her predecessor's other plans, including lighting up the famous Hollywood sign that overlooks the city.

The Los Angeles Times reported that “several hundred people” responded to its questionnaire on the topic, and the question of whether they would use the gondola transport if it was established elicited a "yes" response – "by just a few votes."

Among the concerns was the question of how queueing for the service might affect the timing of the journey, with some respondents saying the Stadium urgently needs to have better general access.

Some readers welcomed the ease and speed a gondola system might offer, and others liked the idea of being able to get to the Stadium with using a car.

Susie Chow, of Monterey Park, responded: "It is repulsive to me to have a gondola rising above the people and houses of the community who are near Dodger Stadium.

"That community has had to endure traffic through the streets and now a gondola above them is horrible.

"The cons outweighs the pros.

"This is another example of the rich exploiting the poor."

Tany Ling, of Los Angeles, added: "People will either keep driving to the Dodger Stadium parking lots, or they will drive to Chinatown in order to hop on the gondola.

"This will turn the neighborhood of Chinatown into the Dodger Stadium parking lot, which means Chinatown will take on even more of the automobile traffic, noise, trash and public urination from beer-imbibing Dodger fans, and its residents will find all of their street parking disappear on game days.

“Meanwhile, these gondola cabins are proposed to be flying overhead (and not very high overhead either) every 30 seconds or so all year long?

“In service fewer than 100 game days and concert days?...

“People assume that the gondola cabins will soar high in the sky over Los Angeles, but they will mostly be barely 30-40 feet above the pavement and above homes in some instances.

“They will cut down a swath of mature trees at the L.A. State Historic Park in order to make room for the new station and the flight path.

“This is information you can only access if you read through the thousands of pages of the DEIR (Draft Environmental Impact Report).”

The proposed plan is being led by Zero Emission Transit, which was handed to them from the Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit and has become the operator and owner of the gondola project.

Construction is predicted to begin in 2026 if the project is approved.

The project was said to cost $125 million (£100 million/€115 million) but that price tag has ballooned and is now said to cost $300 million (£240 million/€277 million)."