L.A. mayor Karen Bass is pushing public transit and remote work to help keep 2028 Olympics traffic manageable, but LA28 is planning for some car use.
Rush hour all but disappeared. There was less traffic on the freeways and not as much stop-and-go on surface streets. Long-time residents of Southern California remember that, in terms of driving, the 1984 Summer Olympics felt something like heaven. Businesses switched to staggered schedules. Lots of people left town for a few weeks. Now, with the world’s biggest sports competition set to return in four years, Mayor Karen Bass wants to go a step further. “A no-car Games,” she said.
For 2028, Bass plans to meet with major employers throughout Southern California to discuss the possibility of once again staggering work hours, a strategy former mayor Tom Bradley used to great effect almost 40 years ago. These are different times — replete with cell phones, laptops and wifi — so Bass also wants as many people as possible to work from home, much as they did during the pandemic lockdown.
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