A Boston Olympics Could’ve Been Terrible. A Los Angeles Olympics Would Be Great. – Slate Magazine

A preliminary document posted to the SCOOG website last year, seemingly by accident, revealed a plan with four clusters—Downtown and Expo Park, Westwood and the Westside, Long Beach, and Avalon—and dozens of existing venues. It doesn’t show any new infrastructure beyond what looks like a handful of ferry stops. In any case, by 2024, the city is set to have completed four sizable transit projects: the Crenshaw Line, the LAX Airport Connector, the downtown Regional Connector, and the extension of the Expo Line to Santa Monica. The so-called “Subway to the Sea” extension of the Purple Line down Wilshere Boulevard to the Westside will probably be coming along too. Because L.A. has, by some measures, the tightest housing market in the country, it shouldn’t be hard to get private developers working on the Olympic Villages, to be built near downtown and along the Los Angeles River, which is currently being restored, and could be used for kayaking and canoeing competitions.