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Alyssa Walker

Alyssa Walker

Los Angeles-based journalist and writer covering urban design, transportation, and civic policy; editor of Torched newsletter.

Jul 2, 2026

10:18
What, in terms of both the physical infrastructure and the jurisdictional political infrastructure, is on your dream list? If we've got this past 2028, you'd be a happy camper.
10:34
Well, what you see with the ordinance, which a draft ordinance was just dropped by the city attorney, so the council will have to pass that.
10:42
I believe it will go to the next ad hoc committee meeting.
10:45
This is just for the city of LA, by the way, but we are the host, so we should be the model here.
10:50
This is a way to streamline all those decisions, right? So anything from like, building temporary seating in like one of the venues, like for example, like the whole Sepulveda Basin area needs to be turned into this extreme sports venue with like skateboarding and BMX biking.
11:09
And you want that to be done in a way that, you know, we have this huge plan to kind of rewild the Sepulveda Basin through there.
11:18
So make sure it doesn't affect that, of course, and we can Maybe get some money from sponsors to do that.

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18:13
early deciding that was that sort of novel at the time?
28:05
So just like, what's your take on that? Again, it's
28:08
complicated, right? I mean, I guess we thought he was going to...
28:13
acquire both of those countries at some point during the past year as well.
28:17
I think, well, the one thing is that it's gone pretty well, I feel like, despite everything.
28:26
I mean, Trump didn't even come to the first game.
28:30
We had the first U.S. game here in L.A., and so it was a really big deal.
28:34
We had like an opening ceremonies, which I guess they'd They don't really do that.
32:05
Oh, if you want us that bad, you can just take it.

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