[Fiji Hill]

I was there in 1984, and they did a fine job. They also did it on the cheap. That doesn’t mean they will do a fine job again, but it shows that it can be done.

I was there, too. During the Olympics, the rush hour traffic jams disappeared and commuters could drive at normal speeds--a very pleasant surprise, as we had feared that the Olympics would bring massive traffic and gridlock.

[beelzepug]

“I was there in 1984, and they did a fine job.”

Mostly because the big trucks only ran at night. They ought to have made that permanent.

[j.havenfarm]

One of my warmest memories of the couple years after I graduated college was waiting with a couple hundred people outside the entrance to Mission Santa Clara (northern California)in the middle of the night waiting for the torch to pass. The runner wasn’t expecting a crowd, and when he saw them, he thrust the torch into the air and the crowd went nuts. Truly an electric moment. I don’t watch the Olympics much any more, and frankly I’m not a big fan of southern California, but LA did it right, made a couple bucks, and I wish them well to pull it off again.