The organizers of the Olympics of Los Angeles 2028 They plan an event No cars to fight the famous traffic jams of the great Californian cityand will encourage viewers to take the public transportwhose network will be developed, they announced this Saturday.
Will be ‘The Games without cars’said the city mayor, Karen Bass, specifying that measures will also be taken to support teleworking in a city that currently has nearly 3.8 million inhabitantsa figure that reaches 18 million if its periphery is included.
“These ‘Games without cars’ will mean that They must use public transport to go to all the venues“Mayor Bass said at a news conference.
“To achieve this we are developing our public transport network“. Bass indicated that the mobile fleet will be expanded with More than 3 thousand buses from other regions of the United States.
The mayor assured that Traffic jams will not be a problem in 2028recalling the example of the previous Olympic Games organized in the city, in 1984.
“In 1984, Los Angeles residents were terrified of having terrible, terrible traffic jams“And we were surprised that we didn’t have them, when in 1984 we didn’t have the technology that we have today.”
Rehousing the homeless
“I think we can achieve some ‘Games without cars’ encouraging people not to drive“They should use public transport,” said the municipal councillor.
“We have learned from covid that there are essential workers who must go to work“But if you limit yourself to that, it will be much easier because we did it during the pandemic and people will have a recent reference to show that it is possible,” he added.
Karen Bass also reported that Measures will be taken to relocate to the near 75 thousand homeless people in the city.
“We will accommodate them in temporary shelters, we will take care of the reasons for those who are homeless and we will offer them permanent shelters later“, he promised.
“We don’t have the Eiffel Tower, but we do have the Hollywood letters. We have amazing places and a magnificent environment“said the president of the Los Angeles Games Organizing Committee, Casey Wassermanon the influence exerted by the French capital on the current Games.
The Closing ceremony this Sunday for Paris-2024 It will be the first occasion for The Angels to announce their Games.
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