Los Angeles will urge public transit at 'no car' 2028 Olympic Games
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PARIS : Los Angeles, a city famous for its passionate car culture and notorious for its traffic, will strongly emphasise the use of public transportation when it hosts the Olympic Games in 2028, LA Mayor Karen Bass said on Saturday. LA is the birthplace of the modern freeway system but its decades-long ro
  • karpintero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    That’s great, let’s hope they invest in the infrastructure needed to make it convenient.

    Bass said the city will utilize 3,000 buses loaned to it from around the country to ease traffic congestion. The U.S. government last month pledged $900 million to help improve the city’s rail and bus systems in anticipation of the Games.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 month ago

      And the infrastructure is definitely lacking in LA. You can’t just tell people to use public transport and have like one bus an hour that takes you 3 miles from where you need to be.

  • 432@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    I wish this was a thing in Houston for just regular events at NRG. NRG not providing parking would be great!

  • yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
    02·
    1 month ago

    All fun and games until the Danish tourists are robbed at gunpoint on a shitty LA bus.

    • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      This idea that public transit is more dangerous is completely inaccurate. 330 traffic fatalities in 2023 in LA. That’s almost 1 day.