The 2016 Games are not coming to Los Angeles
That's my prediction anyway. After all, we've already hosted the Summer Games twice—once more than any other previous U.S. host city, and twice more than Chicago. Image is a major factor in these decisions, and were we chosen to host the Games for a third time, the USOC would likely face more negative PR than they need.
Anyhow, dum dums, a very unencyclopedic Wikipedia article claims that 85-90% of L.A. residents support the city's bid to host the 2016 Games. I'm a wee bit skeptical of this and would like to conduct my own, very unscientific, Mayor Sam poll. So, tell me, do you support bringing the Games back to L.A., and why?
Do U.S. cities really benefit from this any more?
Update: I just noticed something very politically incorrect about the official 2016 Official Bid logo (above). Can you identify it?
Posted by solomon @ 3/08/2007 11:13:00 AM
15 Comments:
I "think" I speak for the "majority" of L.A. residents: We couldn't care less!
Jack Weiss wants to spend money on banner all over the City promoting LA for 2016 Olympics.
I think we should put up banners saying, "PLEASE, Do NOT bring the Olympics to Los Angeles."
The City suffers from traffic gridlock in 2007, on any average day. Can you imagine what would happen if you plop the Worldwide Olympics in the middle of it in about ten years!?!? With the way the City continues to approve high density housing, allowing millions and millions more people to clog up the roads and highways, even more! PLUS, we don't have enough police for a typical day in 2007. Can you imagine a typical day ten years from now, with all the added taxation of the Olympics.
It won't be the good old 80's. It'll be the terrible 2016's...and before the City wants to eat a bunch of cherries on top...you gotta get the basics straight, son...Best beleive, ******!
Zuma Dogg wants to be a porn star, but he don't got the proper infrastructure. And the City of Los Angeles wants to host the Olympics, but they don't got the proper infrastructre. Plus, you KNOW it's a bad idea, cause Jack Weiss wants to spend money to put signs up everywhere promoting L.A. to get the Olympics, WHICH WILL ONLY BACKFIRE ON THE CITY --- When L.A. DOESN'T GET, and it makes the City look like a loser, and everyone starts speculating on all the bad reasons why we didn't get it.
Antonio Weiss, Jack Villargosa and Eli Riorend -- Please don't terrorize the City with the Olympics. We can't handle the nightmare.
mickey_finn,
Sorry i couldn't make it today. But, a fine-fine sunshine day it is, anyway. Guess I'll just have to rock the boat and make waves from here, savvy?
I just noticed something very politically incorrect about the official 2016 Official Bid logo.
Can you identify it?
Of course Solomon -
PALM TREES!
The Stars or
Marihuana leaves
ZD,
Don't know if you were here during the 84 games but that was the best traffic ever! The plans Peter Ueberoth put in to avoid it worked. There was zero traffic those two weeks it was awesome.
I don't care if we have the games or not (though it could be good for LA to be a real city and not a rathole) but as long as they don't put that stupid screen thing on the Coliseum.
And we should implement those traffic plans now whether there is an Olympics or not AND lets elect Peter U. as mayor.
The only reason HIS POLLONESS and the Clowncil won't implement those traffic plans is they don't involve any major public works programs so no one can get rich off it, not even Mayor Riordan.
Bingo! Give Mayor Sam a crape myrtle.
Mayor Sam,
concure on all points. Lets add "MAYOR RICKY's DAD", Eli Broad to the money list. But a "DAY WITHOUT AN ILLEGAL" was also good on the roads.
1:48 - It's supposed to be a hot weekend, too!
Remember part of the equation HAS to be that it will be about ten years from now. Think how much worse the traffic is going to be.
Maybe it was good that they had a driving ban, and whatnot, in the 80's. But besides politicians refusing to slow down the money making machine that these closures would cause...
On the reaslest, dough...ZD WOULD BE PIIIIIIISED to have his driving lifestyle impinged for one tenth of an Olympic second for something as meaningless as Olympics.
Olympics used to make sense in the old days, because it was important to know who could run the fastest and the most, because you had to run far...BUT NOW WE GOT CARS AND ROLLERBLADES. Y'ALL...So who cares how fast someone can run, or how far they can throw a rock, or a spear. It used to make sense to care about throwing a spear, cause it was a necessary tool...But it don't mean squat in 2016 in the preparation of Zuma Dogg's Chinatown meal after public comment.
How about spending all this time and money to see who can come up with a scientific equation to help the environment. Or who can design the best traffic-congestion-appeasement blueprint.
Or how about a competition to see what teacher can take 50 kids and teach them to get the best grades. Then they're score would be their kids combined score.
But ZD doesn't wanna lose a nano-second of reality to see who can jump in the air higher. How about a competiton to see who can make it from Santa Monica City Hall to Downtown L.A. City Hall fastest! Now, THAT would be a useful survival skill in 2016.
sorry for wrong use of "they're" -- should have been "their" -- and how sad that I have to correct it publicly to prevent 50 losers from commenting about it. Blaze it up...Zuma Dogg
because its the Summer olympics, a lot of people leave town to avoid the traffic mess, and thereby unwittingly relieve it.
however...things like heatwaves, DWP blackouts and domestic terrorism target are more of the kind of reasons I 'd be against it.
The Olympics SUCK!!!!
It used to be great---US v. the Soviets and their satellites. There was something real at stake. The sports were great. It was interesting. I couldn't wait to watch every 4 years.
Now its just a bunch ugly women athletes doing things that aren't even sports--like ballroom dancing and women's basketball.
And don't even start with that "up close and personal" crap that NBC does!
Congratulations Chicago! Maybe by 2016 the Cubs will win a World Series (not!)
We won't get it because once the Olympic Committee gets off the plane at LAX and heads north on the 405, they'll get such an eyeful of graffiti they'll turn around and head back to Lausanne, Switzerland.
Thanks CalTrans!
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