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Olympics 2024, the Sequel, to be released at 10 a.m.

By adamg on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 8:52am

At the South Boston convention center. If you can't break away from work, you'll supposedly be able to watch it live online.

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By anon² on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 8:55am.

since they revised the revised plan behind closed doors.

By anon on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:02am.

neat - can they also set up one of those running clocks, like the national debt one, that tallies the current estimated public cost for the games?

By Boston_res on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:08am.

They need a 2024 doomsday clock. When it hits midnight Davey will need a new job.

By anon on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:22am.

let it go already adam

By adamg on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:27am.

The one that starts yapping at its own shadow. So, no, and in the meantime, just scroll down to the next post.

By Brian Riccio on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:35am.

You should post the IP addresses of all anon Olympics supporters. Imagine what we would find!

By moxie on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 7:05pm.

/dev/null is already taken.

By Boston_res on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:29am.

I'd like to see which news stories you consider important.

By chaosjake on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:43am.

If you truly don't care: http://www.universalhub.com/no2024

Many of the rest us do care, and think we should do our best to oppose this thing.

By adamg on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:30am.

Black Lives Matter protesters showed up at his Dorchester home at dawn for a little bit of raucous protesting.

With the Olympic hymn as our backdrop, we delivered our message outlining the economic, social, and cultural disaster Boston 2024 is working so hard to bring here with the XXXIII Olympiad.

By Brian Riccio on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:34am.

I'm going to start leaving my press contact information at the end of all my posts!

By tape on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:52am.

Clearly one of those days where I should have picked up the Red Line at Savin Hill instead of JFK.

By Fitz on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 10:22am.

They picked the wrong day to literally get the mayor's attention as he's out of town in Colorado.

By chaosjake on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:37am.

My wife gets the print edition of the Boston Business Journal, and says they have a blurb that Shawmut Construction has named a new Director of Hotels and a Director of Sports Venues. Sounds like somebody thinks the bid is going to be a winner.

Anybody subscribe online and can provide a link? I couldn't find the article.

By cybah on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 9:56am.

I've said this many many many times before but I'll say it again.

You can re-arrange the deck chairs as much as you want on the Titanic, but the ship is still going to sink.

Same with Boston2024.. they can offer version 564685465.001 and we're still not buying this.

By ChrisInEastie on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 10:23am.

has a pretty good rundown of what to expect.

Interesting tidbit:

These private sector investments would be undertaken in conjunction with taxpayer financed transportation projects, which the committee maintains are needed with or without the Olympics. These include improving MBTA service and replacing the inefficient Kosciuszko traffic circle in Dorchester...


...New public expenses under the plan include $455 million for technology improvements for the MBTA Red and Green lines, which the committee insists will be necessary to handle rush hour T traffic by 2024 even if Boston does not host the Games, as well as $100 million for a new Broadway T station entrance. The plan calls for the completion of two unfunded projects from the city’s existing Columbia Point master plan, the $160 million reconstruction of Kosciuszko Circle and a $60 million rehab of the JFK transit station....

It sounds like they're going to lean very heavily on the whole "Hey, the T is in trouble and this can fix it with this" thing. Which is a complete joke, because we shouldn't need the Olympics to fix what's wrong with our city.

They also seem to be relying on the idea of building new neighborhoods once the village and stadium come down to change minds. Yet we just keep getting more housing that the average person can't afford in the neighborhoods we already have.

Pass.

By MBTA SNAFU on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 10:56am.

I haven't been there in awhile, but uh, what's wrong with Broadway's entrance that it needs a hundred million dollar upgrade?!?

By KSquared on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 11:01am.

It would be like the St Patrick's Day Parade for weeks, and Broadway Station cannot handle anything more than rush hour without completely breaking down.

By ChrisInEastie on Mon, 06/29/2015 - 11:10am.

and no idea. I think KSquared may have nailed it above.