PARIS — Preposterous promises are a time-honored Olympic tradition, but still, on the eve of the handover from Paris 2024 to Los Angeles 2028, when Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass made hers, heads spun and eyes bulged.
LA28, Bass said, would be “a no-car Games.”
“You will have to take public transportation to get to all of the venues,” she proclaimed.
To which millions of Angelenos responded: What public transportation?
Bass was speaking on the penultimate day of the 2024 Games here in Paris. She and LA28 chair Casey Wasserman sat onstage at a convention center surrounded, in a two-block radius, by a subway station, a regional rail station, a tram stop and several bus stops, in addition to a bus hub operating specifically for accredited Olympics personnel.