[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34122208[/url]
[quote]The US Olympic Committee (USOC) has named Los Angeles as the US bid for hosting the 2024 games.
"This is a quest Los Angeles was made for," said LA mayor Eric Garcetti. "This city is the world's greatest stage."
The bid sets out $6bn ($3.8bn) in proposed public and private spending.
Los Angeles hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984, and if chosen would join London as another three-time-host city. It replaces Boston, which dropped out.[/quote]
I'll be sure to stay very very far away from the freeways, though it would be super cool to drive north an hour and boom, Olympic Games.
Hopefully the infrastructure can hang with the temporary increased local bodycount.
Don't let the bid committee try to low-ball the estimated cost like they tried to in Boston.
Hey we are like one of the only cities that profited from an olympic games so we should be able to handle it.
yey, lets hope they sort out the water problem first though, as far as things go though LA is probably the one city with plenty of land to build shit AND we could engineer that stuff to be completely temporary so the extra stadiums don't sit around for decades
I don't think the city already plagued with traffic issues needs to add more people to the mix.
This city can barely function as it is with the godawful freeways. Maybe this would light a fire under Brown's ass to improve our roads.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;48597128]This city can barely function as it is with the godawful freeways. Maybe this would light a fire under Brown's ass to improve our roads.[/QUOTE]
I could ride my bike in almost the same time it would take to get around LA by car
[QUOTE=RockmanYoshi;48597161]I could ride my bike in almost the same time it would take to get around LA by car[/QUOTE]
This is the case in Cambridge, which has a thousand-year old road layout in the centre. Bikes are genuinely faster than driving, I often get some idiot screaming past me in their Citroën Saxo only to casually cycle past them again at the next set of lights.
Unfortunately we can't change it because of all the historic buildings.
The best answer seems to be to ride bikes and invest in public transport. (Seriously, there are tens of thousands of bikes here. It's mad.)
Unless they can somehow disperse the majority of the sporting events into areas around the city or maybe have it extend further out so that way other cities could possibly benefit from any tourism and could use our spaghetti of a freeway system so it wouldn't be condensed into an already hellish traffic jam.
I still really want to see an East Coast Olympics. Was far too young when they were in Atlanta. I honestly got excited for Boston, but I understand the low level of potential success from it, so I'm not totally heartbroken.
Not too excited to hear about LA either. There's the obvious glitz, glamour, sights and sounds, but most of that doesn't particularly interest me. There's only so many celebs I care about, and most are not "mainsteam" AKA the ones the paparazzi definitely follow around. And as already stated, the freeways are terrible.
I've never been, but I know very well the traffic is terrible, even more so than Boston and other poorly laid-out, crowded cities. It's depicted in most games and movies, so people shouldn't have any dissolutions about the severity it can reach.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;48597002]I don't think the city already plagued with traffic issues needs to add more people to the mix.[/QUOTE]
hey LA could build a subway system. maybe get a celebrity like George tekai to run the body putting it together
[QUOTE=Sableye;48610618]hey LA could build a subway system. maybe get a celebrity like George tekai to run the body putting it together[/QUOTE]
It does have a subway
Also
ITT: People who have never lived in LA
Have fun LA! Boston said fuck you to the IOC when they forced unrealistic demands upon the city.
Also LA's subway system is horribly underserved because it was more of an afterthought that only recently started expanding. You can't get anywhere really.
fuck you LA, toronto should get it
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