WHY WE CANCELED OUR LONG-PLANNED BOSTON OLYMPICS POSTMORTEM EVENT

Instead of using BINJ resources on this panel, we want to redirect the energy, and hope that many of you join our new group


 

As seen on the Facebook event page for Hindsight 2024: A Day of Wondering What Could Have Been … 

Hello everyone. BINJ Editorial Director Chris Faraone here. It’s been a while … 

When I made this page as a joke eight years ago, after the Boston 2024 Olympic bid was buried, I figured that we’d actually do something when the time finally came.

All these years later, while I certainly feel it should be remembered that Boston’s business and political leaders thought they could get away with overhauling the entire region for a two-week party for elites, I don’t feel the need to have a panel to revisit the insult.

The fact that this year’s Olympics are in Paris is all of the validation those of us who exposed Boston 2024 should need.

Instead of using Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism resources for this event, we want to redirect the energy, and hope that many of you join our new group for Garbage Rail Kids Collectors. It’s all about the MBTA and why public transit is a mess in Greater Boston. And we will have events coming up soon as well.

Speaking of which, who remembers when officials and area honchos told us they would fix the T if they got to bring the Olympics here? I guess that we are living on the other side of that insulting ultimatum.

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