1: Assumes everything will be built in Boston proper, which is like assuming a NYC Olympics will exclusively take place in Manhattan.
2: I don't even get the argument. Boston's bid advertised a walkable games, and that all venues will be within a 10min walk of a T/MBCR station, so complaining about traffic to get to/from the games is a non-starter.
3: Storrow Drive is "the single most terrifying road in North America" ...? Only on September 1st. Starting to lose credibility here.
4: > I once got on a Green Line train out to Boston College on a Thursday night and got to my stop sometime early Sunday morning. We all made little shelters in different parts of the car and rationed food.
Calm down bro, the B Line has been a crawl since the 70s.
5: >Boston doesn’t have an Olympic Stadium or anything coming close to one. Just doesn’t exist. So they’re going to have to build one.
Just like every other Olympic games for the past hundred years. Besides, London 2012 showed you can build one that can be scaled back by almost 50% so it's not a rotting vestige slowly being reclaimed by nature. (Looking at you, Athens.)
6: "The NE Revolution not getting a stadium" because of the Olympics doesn't deserve its own bullet point. 3rd lowest attendance in MLS, not like it's bursting at the seams, and BTW, it could just as easily go at Wonderland or Suffolk Downs in Revere, or near Assembly Sq in Somerville.
>Awesome. Let’s have the private colleges build sports complexes and probably drive tuition up for the kids there. Good stuff.
Because tuition doesn't rise at 2x the rate of inflation anyway? That's not a legitimate excuse.
8: There aren't enough hotels? It's almost like we'd be building more to host the Olympics, aside from the Billion Dollar expansion of the BCC.
9: Oh there's protesting, so we definitely shouldn't host it. Disregard everything else I said.