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NFT: Boston withdraws bid for 2024 Olympics

SirSirob : 7/27/2015 4:07 pm
Boston's bid is Over
Hmm Toronto may bid  
Jay in Toronto : 7/27/2015 4:08 pm : link
given their experience with the Pan Am games
It was ridiculous  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2015 4:09 pm : link
to begin with IMO. Not even hotel rooms, not enough venues, not the quality or vast infrastructure necessary to support it, would have been a disaster.

Boston deserves it as much as anyone..  
est1986 : 7/27/2015 4:25 pm : link
Shame.
Boston  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2015 4:42 pm : link
has at most 50,000 - 75,000 hotel rooms and that's including Providence, RI Manchester, NH and Hartford, CT - which is silly, but whatever - I think the Boston olympic committee did.

2.1M people attended the London olympics.

Where do you put all those people?

the T, and the commuter rail (the public transportation methods in Boston) can't handle those crowds and the major stadiums (Gillette and Fenway) are some of the smallest, if not the smallest in their respective sports.

great city, I like Boston a lot, but it was a bad idea having and Olympics here, and playing off the emotion of the marathon bombing was gross IMO.
Boston would have been a disaster  
Bill L : 7/27/2015 4:58 pm : link
one way in and out of the city unless you're dressed in flannel or trawl for a living. It would have been a logistical nightmare.

From the paper I read it sounds like they were worried that IOC or someone would shaft them for cost overruns (sort of like what Vince Vaughn wanted on True Detective). Smart for them to withdraw, IMO.



Good  
Steve L : 7/27/2015 4:59 pm : link
I think the security budget alone would be crazy. We can spend our money in much better ways
RE: Boston  
Jim in Fairfax : 7/27/2015 5:17 pm : link
In comment 12387823 pjcas18 said:
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has at most 50,000 - 75,000 hotel rooms and that's including Providence, RI Manchester, NH and Hartford, CT - which is silly, but whatever - I think the Boston olympic committee did.

2.1M people attended the London olympics.

Where do you put all those people?

the T, and the commuter rail (the public transportation methods in Boston) can't handle those crowds and the major stadiums (Gillette and Fenway) are some of the smallest, if not the smallest in their respective sports.

great city, I like Boston a lot, but it was a bad idea having and Olympics here, and playing off the emotion of the marathon bombing was gross IMO.

You don't need to put that many people up, and not all at the same time. Most visitors are day trippers. Many who are staying are only there for a night or two. The London committee requested a commitment of about 40,000 rooms.
In my mind it's a shame, but  
Bob from Massachusetts : 7/27/2015 5:26 pm : link
there was a lot of bad PR and the costs of the Big Dig made everyone wary. Personally I think it was a lack of vision.
Boston's too provincial  
WideRight : 7/27/2015 5:28 pm : link
Its a nice big town, but not a significant modern city. No capability to set up to the world's stage for a major event.
RE: RE: Boston  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2015 5:59 pm : link
In comment 12387861 Jim in Fairfax said:
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In comment 12387823 pjcas18 said:


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has at most 50,000 - 75,000 hotel rooms and that's including Providence, RI Manchester, NH and Hartford, CT - which is silly, but whatever - I think the Boston olympic committee did.

2.1M people attended the London olympics.

Where do you put all those people?

the T, and the commuter rail (the public transportation methods in Boston) can't handle those crowds and the major stadiums (Gillette and Fenway) are some of the smallest, if not the smallest in their respective sports.

great city, I like Boston a lot, but it was a bad idea having and Olympics here, and playing off the emotion of the marathon bombing was gross IMO.


You don't need to put that many people up, and not all at the same time. Most visitors are day trippers. Many who are staying are only there for a night or two. The London committee requested a commitment of about 40,000 rooms.


There are 140,000 hotel rooms in metro London, and better infrastructure.

it's no comparison really.

The economics of such events are notoriously bad...  
Dunedin81 : 7/27/2015 6:03 pm : link
But if they had been forced to modernize their mass transit they might have really benefited from it.
RE: The economics of such events are notoriously bad...  
pjcas18 : 7/27/2015 6:08 pm : link
In comment 12387905 Dunedin81 said:
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But if they had been forced to modernize their mass transit they might have really benefited from it.


do you think more people would use it?

Boston is so old it's generally an inelastic city, and it's hard to reach the suburbs with mass transit unless you have major parking space.

if they could build stations with enough parking out far enough it could work, but they generally don't have the space for that and the people in the city who use it use it no matter what. At least that's how it seems. When I moved up here i lived in the city, now I live in the suburbs.
Good for them  
jc in c-ville : 7/27/2015 7:03 pm : link
The Olympics have been irrelevant for decades. Nobody will notice.
I just think Boston may have come out relatively well..  
Dunedin81 : 7/27/2015 8:11 pm : link
The initial promises would of course have been unfulfilled, but it's a beautiful city with a lot to see, if it had parlayed that into time in the spotlight and some infrastructure upgrades they may have come out ahead.
you think Boston would be a disaster  
giantfan2000 : 7/27/2015 8:22 pm : link
Wait till next year Rio is going to be a disaster

they are so behind construction with less than a year to go..

In the first world these sorts of events  
Dunedin81 : 7/27/2015 8:45 pm : link
Are a money pit. In the developing world they're a crime against humanity.
Put an end to this nonsense  
Rob in CT/NYC : 7/27/2015 9:27 pm : link
Rotate among 3/4 cities...
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