http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/01/boston-olympics-2024-summer
1. There is no infrastructure in place
Boston is a geographically small city that’s already overdeveloped. There is very little land here to build anything, let alone a bunch of stadiums and venues that meet the demands of the IOC.
2. Transportation will be a nightmare
Boston sold itself as a frugal option to host the Summer Games, and part of that was by saying Boston would host a “walkable” games.
3. Storrow Drive
This gets its own bullet point. Storrow Drive is the single most terrifying road in North America. I will not be debated on this. It’s a 4-lane highway, but every lane correlates to a specific exit, but they don’t have any signs letting you know which lane correlates to the exit, so you just have to guess and then when you see your sign you swerve frantically to get in the proper lane. It’s insanity. And everyone is driving 70 miles per hour on it.
4. Public transit won’t be a lot better
5. There’s no main stadium
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.
Olympic Stadiums are expensive. So the city and USOC will have to build one, which could cost taxpayers.
6. …because now the New England Revolution won’t get a new stadium for 9 years
This is the funniest part of the whole thing. By proposing that the new Olympic stadium will become the city’s soccer stadium, Boston has totally taken the responsibility off Robert Kraft and the Revolution ownership to build a proper home for their MLS team.
7. Their proposal says that colleges could build some of the infrastructure
8. There aren’t enough hotels
This city can barely, barely handle Orientation Weekend for all the colleges in town, and now you want to bring the Summer Olympics here?
9. They’re already protesting
Of all the American cities being considered by the USOC, only Boston had protesters show up to the organization’s meeting last month. The IOC won’t choose a host city until 2017. The Olympics aren’t for nine years…and Bostonians are already protesting! This isn’t going to get better as things get closer, I can promise you that.
Blessed are the murderous.