The transit-first (no, really) games
In the end, LA28 put the events where the public transportation will already be
Less than four years out, the citywide vision we're supposed to be rallying behind has yet to be revealed by LA28. And now LA's recovery has become inextricably bound to the 2028 deadline that we're all haphazardly hurtling towards without a plan
The IOC doesn't care if LA holds its games or not. And perhaps more troublingly, the city of LA will happily brush aside its own emergencies in order to stage a megaevent
For better or for worse, LA created the contemporary Olympics. What could we possibly learn about that we didn't invent first?