PARIS, Aug 11 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Los Angeles plans to host what its mayor calls "no car Olympics" in 2028.
Under the plan, all spectators will need to arrive at competition venues using public transportation, and Mayor Karen Bass believes it is possible despite the sprawling West Coast city's famously car-centric culture.
"The 'no car games' means that you will have to take public transportation to get to all of the venues, so in order to do that, we have been building out our transportation system," Kyodo news agency reported Bass told a press conference Saturday in Paris.
Bass will receive the Olympic flag from her Paris counterpart Anne Hidalgo during the closing ceremony of the Paris Games on Sunday.
It will be the third time Los Angeles has staged the Summer Olympics, after 1932 and 1984, and the first it will hold a Paralympics.
"We will be building out aspects of our public transportation system. That's not going to be enough. We're going to need over 3,000 buses that we will borrow from all around the country," Bass added.
"You can't do that without cooperation on every level of government, and I'm happy to say that we certainly have that".
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