^^^You cant compare one period/situation in time to one that is dealing with a totally different scenario. LA had the worlds largest transportation network in 1932, rail lines in fact already reached the west side. In 1984, we realized we absolutely needed transit and have been building rail lines ever since, and seeing how the Santa Monica/westwood area is going to be used heavily this time around for the games, a purple line extension will surely be needed.
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Originally Posted by electricron
I think you'll be extremely disappointed if you believe LA transit will win Federal dollars from nowhere if they won another Olympic hosting bid. Did LA transit win lots of Federal dollars the last two times they hosted the Olympics?
History shows they didn't in the past and they will not fair better in the future.
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Are you 100% sure about that ? I did some fact checking.
The feds have in fact spent billions on the Olympic games.
The feds spent almost $1.3 billion for the Utah winter games in 2002, $609 million for the Atlanta games in 96 and 75+ million on the LA games in 84.
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Did LA get a lot of funding for its transportation network the other 2 times"
Here's the problem with your statement, you left out the details.
1932, LA wasn't as spread out as it is now
BUT it already had the
WORLDS LARGEST electric rail system, fully functional and fairly new, so the Very small amount ( you forgot to mention this was during the great depression) of fed money that did go to the games
Helped with simple maintenance of that system and other things directly related to the games.
1984, LA was still in denial about transit, Angelenos still didn't really want it and we still loved our cars, our honest mistake. So part of that 75+ million went towards freeway/street maintenance and other things directly related to the games.
So to answer your question.
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Did LAs transit win lots of fed dollars the last times?"
1932 didn't need it and 1984 didn't want it.
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Do you think that the feds will pump money into the system this time around"?
YES, there has already been a few publications that have stated this. With Congress
AND the Senate
unanimously(which never happens) backing the bid recently, and Angelenos this time around are nearly 100% all for the expansion of our rail system, I don't see why the feds wouldn't
HELP
No one is asking the feds to fully fund all of LAs transportation needs. But, as a vital component of this countries economy and what will be the poster child of America for a few months for the Olympics, it would be fair to ask them to at least
HELP.