The city was selected Thursday by the United States Olympic Committee to bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, beating out competing proposals from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
Boston wins US Olympic bid
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Re: Boston wins US Olympic bid
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Re: Boston wins US Olympic bid
There are already groups organized to oppose this.
Boston Magazine ran an article a while ago, which they referred to in their most recent edition as the bid process got hotter but Boston hadn't won yet, where they almost-jokingly said Boston should go for the Olympics because they'd have to improve the subway system to cope with the added traffic if they actually won.
They (we) do have to improve the subway system, & not just for a projected surge from Olympics in the far future.
Meanwhile, they are promoting this as a "you can walk to it" (or, well, take a subway to it) Olympics. You really will have to walk to it if they don't improve the subways. But they're already promoting the Merrimac River in Lawrence as the site for all river events instead of the Charles in Boston (because the Charles has "too many bridges"; the Charles' celebrated dirty water is a lot cleaner these days, but maybe some entity is still afraid of being sued by fallers-in) & you can neither walk (unless you're an Olympian walker) or take the subway to it. There is a "purple line*" (as in actual choo-choo) train up to there, though.
*(The Boston subway is color-coded, on maps & in the paint on the trains, per line; all the lines using locomotives on real train tracks are coded purple.)
Boston Magazine ran an article a while ago, which they referred to in their most recent edition as the bid process got hotter but Boston hadn't won yet, where they almost-jokingly said Boston should go for the Olympics because they'd have to improve the subway system to cope with the added traffic if they actually won.
They (we) do have to improve the subway system, & not just for a projected surge from Olympics in the far future.
Meanwhile, they are promoting this as a "you can walk to it" (or, well, take a subway to it) Olympics. You really will have to walk to it if they don't improve the subways. But they're already promoting the Merrimac River in Lawrence as the site for all river events instead of the Charles in Boston (because the Charles has "too many bridges"; the Charles' celebrated dirty water is a lot cleaner these days, but maybe some entity is still afraid of being sued by fallers-in) & you can neither walk (unless you're an Olympian walker) or take the subway to it. There is a "purple line*" (as in actual choo-choo) train up to there, though.
*(The Boston subway is color-coded, on maps & in the paint on the trains, per line; all the lines using locomotives on real train tracks are coded purple.)