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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has announced plans to make the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles car-free by expanding public transportation and encouraging remote work.

What’s the deal: Mayor Bass announced that Los Angeles is aiming for a “car-free” 2028 Olympics by expanding public transportation and borrowing 3,000 buses nationwide to ensure all venues are accessible without personal vehicles. The city is also working with local businesses to promote remote work and staggered hours during the games and collaborating with state officials to improve Southern California’s highways to ease traffic flow.

What the Mayor said: In a press release, the Mayor said, “Part of [having] a no-car Olympics means getting people not to drive.” She continued, “We’re already working to create jobs by expanding our public transportation system in order for us to have a no-car Games. And that’s a feat for Los Angeles, as we’ve always been in love with our cars. We’re working to ensure that we can build a greener Los Angeles.”

Mayor’s message to employers: Mayor Bass urged Los Angeles employers to start planning for remote work during the 2028 Olympics to help reduce traffic. She said, “I think the way that it should work is to meet with the city’s major employers and to talk about staggering work hours, which is something that was done 40 years ago when we had no technical cellphones and personal computers. I think, frankly, it is not going to be difficult this time. I do think that there might be some employers that we could say, ‘Could you be remote for 17 days?’ It’s going to be a lot easier because we did go through COVID, so people will have some reference point in recent history as to how you could do that.”

Getting homeless off the streets: According to the city of Los Angeles, roughly 75,312 people are homeless in LA County. In an effort to cut this number down by 2028, the Mayor said, “We will get people housed. We will get them off the street. We will get them into temporary housing, address the reason why they were unhoused, and get them into permanent housing.“