As much as the idea of us hosting the Olympics seems cool, I don’t want our region to be stuck with overly expensive and oversized venues that are hard to reuse -especially if the specs of those developments dictated by the IOC’s unnecessary extravagance, and the logistics will be controlled by NBC’s whims (surely this is common sense by now and I don’t need to cite it, right…). I’m supportive of the Olympic movement, but not the cronyism behind it -and I especially don’t want the Triangle to become yet another victim.
You might want to take a look at the thread about our bid for the World University Games in 2027, which might give you a nearer-term look at how we’d stack up. There’s also a whole section for threads on transit and transportation where we’re talking about RUSbus, upcoming BRT and rail projects, and the limitations of them all (mainly due to lack of money and local risk aversion).