A city with little transit, LA wants to host a 'no-car' 2028 Olympic games: here's how LA is famous for its car traffic and lack of public transit. It plans to change that by 2028 – and ban cars at Olympic venues, too.

The mayor of Los Angeles said that she wants the 2028 Olympic Games to be car free

That’s an unexpected development

As this Electrek story shows, it could help change the culture among LA residents themselves

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"Also, X has changed its business model. When Sound Transit launched @Alerts_ST, X allowed Sound Transit to link to our email/text alerts distribution tool and automatically post rider alerts. Now, X charges organizations to post automatically. When X made the change, peer transit agencies like King County Metro and Community Transit retired their alerts channels."

Another casualty of Elon Musk's poor decisions at Xitter: last month, Sound Transit, the agency running Seattle's light rail, has retired its alerts account

One reason is the new, very expensive, enterprise pricing

www.soundtransit.org/blog/platfor...

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France is definitely not a model with it comes to properly maintain its rail infrastructure

But 80 years old overhead wires on the *largest* national rail line is something else

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New York Faces Fresh Commuter Woes as Record Heat Cancels Trains Across Northeast An intensifying heat wave has led to train cancellations and delays on public transit systems up and down the Northeast Corridor.

Extreme weather events and climate change have a wide range of impact, including on public transit.

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