What will Los Angeles transportation be like when the Olympics arrive in 2028?
During the 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles was a rail transit dead zone. And the ribbon-cutting on the first modern rail line, from Long Beach to downtown, was still six years away. Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics as a changed city. (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)The Purple Line subway will shave the trip from the Westside to downtown Los Angeles to half an hour, and is key to the region’s Olympics bid. The transportation legacy of the OlympicsTraffic is light at the downtown Los Angeles fourlevel freeway interchange one morning during the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Source: Los Angeles Times August 07, 2017 12:00 UTC
