01/05/2026
Organizers of the 2028 Olympics are working on plans to get people around the city quickly. But a proposed Festival Trail is thinking about getting people around slowly, and enjoying the city along the way.
Chris Torres of the urban design firm Agency Artifact envisioned the Festival Trail two years ago as a way of connecting communities that locals and visitors might pass by on their way to one Olympic venue or another. For Torres, that's a missed opportunity.
"We're going to have over 15 million tickets sold, the equivalent of seven Super Bowls happening every day for six weeks straight," he says. "Where are those people going to go? How are they going to get there? That's a big question. Still, without the Festival Trail, and projects like the Festival Trail, all of that energy and capital will likely go to parts of the city that are already well-traveled by tourists, right? So we want to uncover the real LA through the project."
The trail would be for walkers or cyclists, and feature activations along the way: food pop-ups, music, that kind of thing. It's still early days for the project, though, which isn't affiliated with LA28. How many miles of trail, whether it would last beyond the Olympics: These are still open questions.
Original reporting by Brandon R. Reynolds (.r.reynolds)
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