Transportation
Real-time arrivals
We've got to improve the way we deliver transit information before millions more people get here
Traci Park's Olympic parking lot
A notoriously anti-bike lane councilmember is using the "car-free" games to stop a fully approved 100 percent affordable housing development
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1,000 days later
Unfortunately, the mayor's vision — which feels about 1,000 days too late — is so light on substance that it's hard to see how LA's megaevent future materializes
RIP "car-free" games
If these games are still meant to be "transit-first" — why not announce a transit partner, first?
Dying to host the Olympics
During this week's budget hearings, councilmembers repeatedly asked if improvements around Olympics venues were taking precedence over obligations to their constituents to deliver safer streets
The road ahead
The city's first capital improvement plan will be focused exclusively on projects related to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It's already being referred to as the "Games CIP"
Feed the meter
The fact that LA could even aspire to host a "car-free" games owes a great debt to Donald Shoup repeating, for decades, that just because you're going somewhere in this city, you're not automatically guaranteed a free parking spot when you get there
The no-build (until-we-need-to-build-something-fast) games
LA could leverage this ordinance to make it easier to create new public spaces, public bathrooms, and even public housing leading up to 2028
Service disruptions
"The immediate-term outcome is that the discretionary grants from the federal government are going to be oriented away from urban areas, communities of color, and pedestrian, bike and transit projects"
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