In advance of this year’s World Cup, experts worried that the event would be a public transit disaster, thanks in large part to the United States’ entrenched car culture. That fiasco-in-the-making never came to pass because cities made real investments in expanded bus lines, new train stations, and more. Not all of those changes will be permanent, but as Sara Herschander argues in an article this week, they still offer a heartening sign about the ways cities might adapt.
That’s especially true for public transit-averse cities like Los Angeles, which will be hosting the Olympics next summer. But given its triumphant success this year, Sara writes, that city “just got closer to making its car-free summer Olympic dreams come true.”
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—Jacob Brogan, deputy editor, Future Perfect
