No-car Games: Los Angeles Olympic venues only accessible by public transit

Wouldn&#x27;t it be amazing if the organizers were to commit to ensuring <i>everyone</i> - VIPs included - were going to be forced to use public transit? Might even provide incentives to make sure the transit options work :)<p>Otherwise this smacks of the elites jetting to Davos to discuss how the rest of us need to cut back on our emissions :&#x2F;

What this sounds like to me as someone from LA: pay $50 per hour to park in a lot and take a shuttle from there, because of course no one will consider pedestrian infrastructure between the venues and the parking lots.

Four years is enough time to figure this out, but I still wonder whether it will actually be enough time for Los Angeles to figure this out.<p>Why not start today on making Los Angeles less car dependent and more mass transit oriented?

&quot;Bass does not yet have a commitment from LA-based businesses to allow their employees to work from home during the Games.&quot;<p>I guess LA area companies have a couple more years of culling the workforce with RTO policies before they show yet again they are not necessary

If no cars are a priority, why on earth would you pick LA then. I can&#x27;t think of a more car dependent location, maybe Dallas?

I am happy to hear this, but where I am public transit is real bad (we have subways, not just busses). You can walk faster than how fast the subways go. I hope LA&#x27;s PT is much better.<p>But the Olympics is 4 years away, I am sure that requirement will be changed. This is the US after all.

They&#x27;ll need to figure out how to keep Uber and Lyft out or you&#x27;ll have endless roving cabs.

What is the point of &quot;No-car&quot;? Better to focus on actual outcomes like safe, efficient, fast, cheap transportation instead of pre-determining the implementation. If the emphasis were on outcomes it&#x27;s unlikely that 100% private cars or public transportation would be the solution. A blend of self-driving cars, personal mobility, and busses might be the best mix.

Would be cool to see a list of events&#x2F;locations accessible by (even the limited) Metro line.<p>And then map out hotels on the line and you’ve got a pretty decent Olympics experience.

Bookmark their ticket prices and then compare them to the ticket prices that the Games.

Now if only they had public transit. Renting buses seems like not much of a plan.

I&#x27;m curious about how much time skillful, trained, smart people need to realize that collective transit (improperly named public, since it&#x27;s essentially all private tapping public fund plus tickets and co from the merchandise they carry) are just speculation, practically unsustainable and dollar green, definitively not grass green.<p>Downvotes probably will be the answer.<p>Ladies and gentleman&#x27;s mass transport works, it efficient and effective, where there are enough people who want to go from A to B, let&#x27;s say for the purpose it was born, bring workers back and forth slums&#x2F;factory. It can&#x27;t be generalized. There are countless A and B 24&#x2F;7&#x2F;365 we simply can&#x27;t much most of them, yes, we can match some, but needing anyway private transports aside, making the overall design inefficient because or you keep moving nearly empty, wasting much resources, or you keep under-utilized transport means en masse, again wasting much resources.<p>The city is the topmost of inefficiency model with their offices and high rise condos where people use both for less than 12h&#x2F;day commuting between them just to be exposed to physical ads (shop windows), in the past was needed because we haven&#x27;t efficient enough transportation, TLCs and ITs, meaning we need paper and being at short range. Not the costly tradeoff it&#x27;s simply too expensive and not anymore needed anyway, except for finance capitalism who need that scale to profit from poor (impoverished) masses who own anything.<p>Try to imaging how NY can go green new deal. Try to estimate the natural resource costs and a hyper-generic outline of how to make it real. Now try to estimate the natural resources needed by a spread society of small buildings, properly using current tech, desktop-centric instead of mobile+cloud for IT. If you do such game you&#x27;ll discover that modern smart-city narrative is the old Fordlandia one, a fascist distopic society who can&#x27;t not only work but even being built with Earth resources. The ruling class today is a timocracy, so finance, so they need that model at all costs, but the society need to avoid it at all cost.