As part of their campaign to bring the National Football League back to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, officials released a study Monday showing that having an NFL team play in a renovated stadium would have little negative effect on the surrounding community.
The environmental impact report, prepared for the Coliseum Commission by several outside consultants, found that night games during the workweek would be likely to create a traffic nightmare resulting in "significant impacts" at 23 of 26 intersections studied.
But the report noted that such games are rare, usually happening only once in any given season.
The effect on weekend traffic would be smaller, with only six of 26 intersections expected to be heavily traveled.
The report also considered how the community and environment would be affected by a proposed $350-million to $400-million renovation of the historic building.
It found that construction would stir up a significant amount of dust and pollution.
But it concluded that the effect would be less than that of building a new stadium at a competing site in Carson.
