Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared it will be the “no-car games” and venues will only be accessible by public transportation.
The mayor's plan to address traffic snarls consists of both using 3,000 buses that will be borrowed from all over the country and asking businesses to allow their employees to work from home.
Tom Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles in 1984, had local businesses stagger their workforce hours to reduce the number of cars on the road. Bass likes that approach but wants to go even further, with nonessential workers permitted to work remotely during the Games.Paris has been lauded for how accessible the Games have been, with nearly every venue reachable by Metro, commuter train, tram or bus.
“I think the workforce, probably around the world, certainly around our country, is grappling with remote work now,” she continued. “So I do think that there might be some employers that we could say, ‘Could you be remote for 17 days?’ It's going to be a lot easier because we did go through COVID, so people will have some reference point in recent history as to how you could do that.
“Our mantra is we need to be the safest place, but we need to be the greatest experience as well and we're not going to sacrifice one for the other,” he said. “The Olympics is not a normal event. It doesn't matter in what time it operates or what city it is. The benefit of LA is we have lots of incredibly big global events, so we are used to different security protocols for those events.”
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