Los Angeles wants a ‘no-car’ Olympics in 2028. Is it possible?
Los Angeles wants a ‘no-car’ Olympics in 2028. Is it possible?
Karen Bass, the mayor, pledged to make the Games car-free, but the sprawling city’s public transit falls far behind that of previous host cities
I was a bit pessimistic about this being possible, but to see that we did this in the 1984 Olympics without any light rail is pretty amazing to hear.
I was in LA last summer. Not sure there would be anything left if you removed the cars and roads.
You should have left the freeway... There's a lot of things in la other than freeways.
Look at LA with Google Earth and then compare it to a city like Berlin or München. You will see that LA has far more parking lots, more stroads (roads that extremely dangerous and hostile to pedestrians and cyclists), and far fewer parks
LA? Car free LA?
Is this in response to all of the athletes with asthma?
No cars, only busses.
You have 4 years. Not enough to start and complete a new rail project. So stock up on bollards and lane dividers. And start creating a physically separated bus lane on every major street right now.
They have been building a lot though, many lines are supposedeto open. If they are enough is an open question of course.
They could plan and build a few more lines in the next few years if they wanted, but it requires vision and such that we don't see in the us so they won't. it is still possible.
Yeah from what I read the biggest issue (besides not nearly enough lines, but like the first comment said can't build that much in 4 years, but hey let's try..), is frequency and dependability on the rail.
They need to prove that their rail system is frequent enough and has the capacity to carry olympic crowds. That's what I want to see, Metrolink and their subways running every 5-10 minutes, proving they can get people moving