
Alyssa Walker
Los Angeles-based journalist and writer covering urban design, transportation, and civic policy; editor of Torched newsletter.
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Jul 2, 2026
The World Cup is Here, the Olympics are Coming... is LA Prepared?
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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.

Alyssa WalkerGUEST
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.

Alyssa WalkerGUEST
This is just for the city of LA, by the way, but we are the host, so we should be the model here.

Alyssa WalkerGUEST
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.

Alyssa WalkerGUEST
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.

Alyssa WalkerGUEST
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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Iran Deal, World Cup, and Trump’s UFC Birthday Party with Alissa Walker and Chris Estrada
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Alyssa WalkerGUEST
I think, well, the one thing is that it's gone pretty well, I feel like, despite everything.

Alyssa WalkerGUEST
We had like an opening ceremonies, which I guess they'd They don't really do that.
