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What Are the Olympics For? Q&A with Jules Boykoff on June 8
Introducing the very first of many Torched events. Upgrade to 🔥🔥 for early access to all talks and tours!

What we need is a surge of bus investments
A majority of Metro's nearly 1 million daily passengers are bus riders, who are often left waiting in more ways than one


"Don't be a palm, be an oak"
Of course LA should plant actual trees before the Olympics, but which trees should we actually plant?

The people on the bus
LA's electeds could take truly monumental steps to protect the safety of transit riders who power the entire region

The Olympic wage
“We’re demanding a new deal for the Olympics that includes family-sustaining jobs and affordable housing for workers"


A bright spot
We're Californians — of course we're turning all our freeways into super-fast trains!

The best time to plant a tree
Starting today could provide a bit of respite for Olympic ticketholders making their way to the diving finals on a sweltering July afternoon — and someone waiting at the same bus stop trying to get to work

How do we get there from here
What happened to 28 by 28 is what's happening to a lot of LA's Olympic-related goals at the moment: a flashy announcement got a lot of attention yet had no strategy to actually make it happen

Introducing Torched
Is LA really about to squander a once-in-a-generation chance to leverage its Olympic opportunity into tangible, permanent benefits for the 10 million people being forced to participate in this civic experiment?