Comments by "Gabe" (@gabetalks9275) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. I will never get over how scummy it was of Moses to run the Dodgers out of Brooklyn. Moses hated transit because it benefited the poor and non-whites. I am convinced that the reason why he tried to force them to move to Flushing Meadows where the Mets are is because he hated how diverse and unified the Dodgers' fanbase was and sought to destroy that by any means necessary. A true premium scumbag indeed. All of those World Series championships that they won in LA should've belonged to Brooklyn full stop. Brooklyn was robbed of their community, rich baseball history, one of sports' greatest cathedrals, a piece of their pre-NYC heritage, and their dynasty all thanks to one racist tyrant and his supreme unelected power greater than even the governor's. The Giants were goners thanks to the Yankees, but the Dodgers could've stayed.
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  2. I think that instead of establishing a permanent host city per continent, there should be a strict criteria of sustainability that every city campaigning to host city must fulfill in order to be eligible to bid. Basically, a permanent list of eligible cities, rather than set host cities. The reason I suggest this is because the Olympics are a celebration of global culture. There are numerous cities that are capable of hosting a successful Olympics if they're managed correctly, so going in this direction will allow for as many cultures as possible to have the spotlight while avoiding an Athens 2004/Rio 2016-esque disaster. The IOC also needs to stop taking hogging almost all of the profits from the games and let the host city prosper off of them.
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  3. Mixed used stadium development is smart because it actually makes the price tag of the worth it. Creating a business district right next to the city's premier entertainment venue prints money for the local economy. Especially when those districts are walkable and near public transit, which they probably are if they are in their in the city center.
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  4. The Dutch have plenty of wide roads with resting points in between, so it's fine. They make traffic flow better and safer, because pedestrians won't be forced to sprint through all 8 lanes at once. Plus, many of those lanes are dedicated bus lanes. If this was your typical American stroad, Seattle would make all 8 lanes for cars without a buffer in-between.
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  5. Fixing the dilemma of host cities is not an issue of money, as much as it is an issue of infrastructure. The IOC needs to make it a policy that only cities with the sufficient wealth and infrastructure in countries with strong enough economies can be allowed to host a games. Because those are the only cities that are prepared and ever have successful games. That's why those host cities always have the most memorable games. It doesn't have to only be previous hosts either. NYC has never hosted and already has enough infrastructure to host an Olympics because they're such a major city, which has only increased significantly since their 2012 bid, so even they are eligible. We just need to make a list of as many capable cities as possible in order for more cultures to be given the chance to host, and create permanent Olympic Villages in each city as they rotate, because if the Villages become housing, than the cities will have to build a whole new village every time they host.
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