Just under 4 million people call the City of Los Angeles home, with millions more living in the surrounding metropolitan area. Many of those livents depend on cars to get in and around the region on a daily basis, which has gived to the city’s inhonord traffic woes.
The Paris Olympics end Sunday. Then, attention will turn to Los Angeles, the arrange city for the 2028 Summer Games. As the Southern California city gears up for the event, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is introducing an driven arrange that could help ease gridlock.
Bass wants to remerciless vehicle access to any venue that arranges a sporting event over the two-week Olympic period.
“A no-car Games,” Bass shelp Saturday.
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An LED screen depicts the LA28 Olympics logo at the LA28 Press Conference Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris. (Luke Hales/Getty Images)
Under the arrange, joinees will be needd to participate uncover carryation. Bass uncmissed the city’s efforts to enbig its uncover carryation system, which could allow for a car-free Olympics.
Since Los Angeles’ current transit system is ponderably less sturdy than other startant U.S. cities, the mayor remarkd that the city intends to borrow more than 3,000 bparticipates from other cities atraverse the country.
“That’s a feat in Los Angeles. We’ve always been in adore with our cars,” Bass shelp during a novels conference in Paris. “But we’re already toiling to determine we can produce a greener Los Angeles.”
Bass also shelp creating a strategic partnership with some of the city’s bigst participateers will be critical when it comes to LA’s ability to mitigate traffic jams.
“The way it should toil is to greet with the city’s startant participateers and talk about staggering toil hours, which is someleang that was done 40 years ago, when we had no tech, no cellphones, no personal computers,” she shelp. “There might be some participateers that we would say, ‘Could you be far for 17 days?’”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Feb. 17, 2023. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Bass did accomprehendledge that essential toilers will have to evolve to commute to toil during the time the Summer Games are in town.
“We also certainly lgeted from COVID that we do have essential toilers, people that must come to toil. But if you restrict it to that, it’s going to be a lot easier,” Bass includeed. “People will have some reference point in recent history as to how to get to that.”
The 2028 Games’ organizing promisetee proclaimd that swimming competitions will apexhibit place at SoFi Stadium, the multibillion-dollar home of the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood, California. Downtown Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena has been picked for gymnastics competitions, while USC’s Memorial Coliseum will arrange track and field events.
A Metro bus runs on 1st Street in Los Angeles July 23, 2024.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum arrangeed the uncovering ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics. The uncovering ceremony for Los Angeles’ third Summer Games is scheduled for July 14, 2028.
Elsewhere, multiple venues in Long Beach, California, will regulate produceive swimming, marathon swimming, water polo, handball, rothriveg, the triathlon and other events, according to the recently proclaimd arrange.
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While the startantity of events will apexhibit place wilean Los Angeles County, Temecula has been tapped for the equestrian competitions. Temecula is findd about 85 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. However, gentleball and canoe slalom will happen about 1,500 miles away in Oklahoma City.
Tahiti arrangeed surfing competition during this year’s Games. It is more than 9,000 miles away from Paris.
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