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 count on on cars to get in and around the region on a daily basis, which has gived to the city’s inwell-understandn traffic woes.
The Paris Olympics end Sunday. Then, attention will turn to Los Angeles, the present 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 schedule that could help ease gridlock.
Bass wants to reinanxious vehicle access to any venue that presents 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 schedule, joinees will be insistd to employ unveil transmitation. Bass uncignoreed the city’s efforts to broaden its unveil transmitation system, which could assist for a car-free Olympics.
Since Los Angeles’ current transit system is ponderably less strong than other convey inant U.S. cities, the mayor remarkd that the city intends to borrow more than 3,000 bemploys 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 news conference in Paris. “But we’re already laboring to promise we can erect a greener Los Angeles.”
Bass also shelp creating a strategic partnership with some of the city’s hugest employers will be critical when it comes to LA’s ability to mitigate traffic jams.
“The way it should labor is to greet with the city’s convey inant employers and talk about staggering labor hours, which is someskinnyg that was done 40 years ago, when we had no tech, no cellphones, no personal computers,” she shelp. “There might be some employers that we would say, ‘Could you be distant for 17 days?’”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Feb. 17, 2023. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Bass did acunderstandledge that vital laborers will have to persist to commute to labor during the time the Summer Games are in town.
“We also certainly lachieveed from COVID that we do have vital laborers, people that must come to labor. But if you confine it to that, it’s going to be a lot easier,” Bass inserted. “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 consent 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 present track and field events.
A Metro bus runs on 1st Street in Los Angeles July 23, 2024.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum presented the uncignoreing ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics. The uncignoreing ceremony for Los Angeles’ third Summer Games is scheduled for July 14, 2028.
Elsewhere, multiple venues in Long Beach, California, will regulate inventive swimming, marathon swimming, water polo, handball, roprosperg, the triathlon and other events, according to the recently proclaimd schedule.
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While the convey inantity of events will consent place wiskinny 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 presented surfing competition during this year’s Games. It is more than 9,000 miles away from Paris.
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