L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti appeared on NBC’s “Late Night” last night, with host Seth Meyers noting “you guys have the Olympics coming in 2028. I feel like this is the first time in a long time that I've heard someone actually got a good deal as a host city for the Olympics, and you have an initiative called ‘28 by '28.’ Is this about public transportation or just general traffic?” Garcetti: “We're, unfortunately, not only the car capital but the traffic capital of America. The same night that President Trump was elected, there was other stuff on the ballot and we passed a $120 billion initiative to build 15 transit lines in L.A. where cars reign supreme, and by 2028 when the Olympics come, we'll have 28 of those projects done that are improvements of roads, new lines. A lot of middle-class jobs, too, that you can't export and I think when people talk about politics, they say words like ‘infrastructure.’ What does that mean? It means me getting home to my wife, my daughter. It means me deciding that I can make it to that date on time, take that job. We forgot to talk about things in human terms" (“Late Night,” NBC, 3/6).
