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LA 2028's No-Car Olympics Plan
- The 2028 Summer Olympics (Games of the XXXIV Olympiad) run 14-30 July 2028 across Greater Los Angeles, with two subsites in Oklahoma City[2]
- Los Angeles was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima on 13 September 2017, after Budapest, Hamburg and Rome withdrew and the IOC awarded 2024 and 2028 together, with $1.8 billion additional IOC funding[2]
- The transport plan is "car-free" and includes the Twenty-eight by '28 initiative announced under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti; by March 2024, 11 of 28 projects had been revised[2]
- Late 2024 concern noted only 5.2% of LA Metro's $3.3 billion Olympic project list was funded[2]
- D Line extension phase 1 was completed in May 2026, with phase 2 to Century City by late 2026 and phase 3 to the VA Medical Center by 2027[2]
- Buses are the primary mode, with an estimated 2,700 additional buses needed against Metro's 2,320-bus fleet[2]