Jason Sisney LA28 Posts

by Jason Sisney* As discussed in my October 2025 post on California state government actions concerning the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Senate Bill (SB) 128 of 2025 authorized the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and local authorities to designate road and freeway lanes in the Los Angeles region as a  Games Route Network (GRN) in 2028. This post discusses new state legislation allowing automated enforcement of GRN use, provides background on GRN and Games-related traffic, and notes the Newsom administration's discussion of unmet resource needs for the 2028 GRN. Possible signage directing LA28 vehicles to current FasTrak express lanes in Los Angeles region. (Source: California Traffic Control Devices Committee, August 2025,  PDF page 50 of 81 .) Olympic and Paralympic Games are "Mega-Events."  The Olympic and Paralympic Games are among the world's biggest events.  "According to data models prepared by the City of Los Angeles," a ...

  by Jason Sisney   Financing Olympic and Paralympic Games has been a highlight of my public finance career, starting years before I joined California state government in 2005. This year, the International Society of Olympic Historians published my article  (“California’s Olympic Financial Failure: The 1960 Winter Games”)—completed over seven years—on the interaction of the California state budget with the 1960 Olympic Winter Games in Northern California. I am working on more Olympic history journal articles now. I am a big fan of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and think they benefit host communities with shared experiences and great memories. At the same time, as my journal article shows, I focus on risks to communities in managing finite public resources for a sporting event. This Post: State Actions To Date for 2028.   In this post, I summarize key state government actions to date concerning the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Several of these relate directly to Cal...