I assume the author is too young to remember the 1984 Olympics. In any case the guy has no clue.
I remember. I expected a traffic and parking nightmare, but traffic was not at all bad, and there were plenty of unoccupied metered parking spaces in downtown Westwood. There was even some free unmetered street parking. Easy mid-day street parking in Westwood! Unbelievable! So many people stayed away to avoid the crowd that the crowding never happened.