I think we have the engineering and contracting talent to build some extra needed transport if the local bigwigs can pony up the cash; and the city can then block off certain existing routes to typical traffic. Or maybe even just get a second "HOV" lane on our entire traffic grid, for Olympic staff and talent.
Not really. The entire Olympic Games is one giant money making scheme where the tax payers aren't even invited to the party they're paying for. Yes, hosting the Olympics brings in money, but just like the Wall Street bailout, the money goes to those who already have enough, not to those who need it the most. Some small business owners benefit, but the local tax base bears the brunt of the cost and gets nothing in return other than nightmare traffic for two weeks.
There isn't a hotel, restaurant, airline, convenience store, pharmacy, gasoline station, gas or electric utility, engineer, contractor, for profit hospital or physical therapist in the host city or province that would agree with you. All their revenues get taxed too, and presumably are all staffed with local taxpayers.
That's the beauty of Houston's bid,and why the USOC invited Houston to try and compete to be the host city for the USA few years back. All of the venues are so close together. Basically in and around 610. The water events would obviously be somewhere else, unless this bayou cleanse keeps moving forward. City needs a much better public transit system though. That's basically all that was holding it back. Atlanta doing a ****ty job hurts too.
What, do you think Fukushima is going to turn Tokyo/Japan into some radioactive wasteland or something? Take a look at a map sometimes, and check out where Fukushima is. Then look where Tokyo is.
It looks like Dallas is going to bid on 2024. Surely their bid can't top ours, if we bid. All of our venues are closer.
