San Francisco loses 2024 Olympic bid to Boston - YES! PRAISE THE LORD (Sacramento: houses)

[ambient]

Boston will be U.S. bid city for 2024 Summer Olympics - ESPN Boston



Words cannot describe how thrilled I am that Boston is taking the bullet for this giant boondoggle and IOC royalty ass-kissing fest instead of us. Traffic already sucks, economic gears are already turning fast enough, costs are already through the roof, construction is already packed tight enough. Our taxes are already high enough, we have enough things that we need to pay for, and we waste enough already putting on Larry Ellison's pet America's Cup rich people flash-barge sailing extravaganza. Last thing I need is to be footing the bill for this colossal two-week circus and dealing with a million people stomping around some Olympic Village two miles from my house.

THANK YOU, BOSTON!!! (and good luck)

[movinon]

Agreed! I lived in LA during the Olympics there and the traffic alone was a nightmare. Well, it always is, but magnitudes worse. Now I'm in the Sacramento area and getting into The City is a challenge in the best of times. I can't imagine trying to navigate around Olympic venues in the Bay Area.

[Podo944]

Summer in Boston is pretty hot and sticky, too bad for the athletes they wont be in SF.

BTW, one thing I remember during the '84 games is how many people moved in with relatives and rented out their houses for big, (make that astronomically huge!) bucks!

[EdJS]

Originally Posted by movinon

Agreed! I lived in LA during the Olympics there and the traffic alone was a nightmare. Well, it always is, but magnitudes worse. Now I'm in the Sacramento area and getting into The City is a challenge in the best of times. I can't imagine trying to navigate around Olympic venues in the Bay Area.

Actually, traffic during the Olympics in L.A. in 1984 was better than normal. I was there.

I guess I missed my chance for having my home town be the Olympic host for the third time in my life. (Montreal 1976 and L.A. 1984) Personally, I loved the experience. But in both cases I moved out of the metro areas very soon after so I didn't have to deal with the aftermath.

[legal_eagle]

Originally Posted by EdJS

Actually, traffic during the Olympics in L.A. in 1984 was better than normal. I was there.

I guess I missed my chance for having my home town be the Olympic host for the third time in my life. (Montreal 1976 and L.A. 1984) Personally, I loved the experience. But in both cases I moved out of the metro areas very soon after so I didn't have to deal with the aftermath.

I lived there at the time also and you're right that the traffic was amazingly better during the Olympics ... brought about no doubt by massive advertising asking people to limit driving or drive during off times.

[movinon]

Originally Posted by EdJS

Actually, traffic during the Olympics in L.A. in 1984 was better than normal. I was there.

I think the traffic probably depended on what your driving patterns were, both geographically and time-wise. That and what venues happened to be in your path. I know for a fact that companies made concerted efforts to assist employees with work schedule flexibility, ridesharing, and so on. I'm very sure of that because I was personally charged with orchestrating such programs for my employer and the experience is etched permanently in my brain. I do think that traffic mitigation is far easier in LA than I imagine it would be in the Bay Area. But I guess that's a moot point, now.