Hahn Celebrates Long Beach Hosting 11 Olympic Sports
Proposes Water Taxi between San Pedro to Long Beach
AquaLink water taxi operated by Long Beach Transit
Los Angeles, CA – Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn is applauding news that Long Beach will host 11 sports in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games – making Long Beach the host of the second highest number of sports of any city in the county after Los Angeles. In light of this news, Hahn is proposing that Metro operate a water taxi from San Pedro to Long Beach during the games.
“Congratulations to Mayor Rex Richardson and the entire Long Beach team on securing 11 Olympic sports that will showcase so much of what makes Long Beach so special,” said Supervisor Janice Hahn. “Long Beach will be the place to be in 2028 and I want us to get creative about how people will get there. I am proposing that Metro operate a water taxi between San Pedro and Long Beach as a fun and innovative way to get people around during the games.”
Long Beach will host everything from beach volleyball at Alamitos Beach, to coastal rowing at the Waterfront, to sport climbing and water polo at the Long Beach Convention Center.
Supervisor Hahn is the current chair of the Metro Board of Directors and chair of Metro’s Ad-Hoc Committee on the Olympic and Paralympic Games. At the next ad-hoc committee meeting, Hahn will introduce a motion to have Metro explore the feasibility of the agency operating a water taxi during the 2028 Summer Games that would ferry attendees and tourists between San Pedro and Long Beach within the breakwater.
“If we really want the 2028 games to be ‘transit-first,’ we have to make transit fun for people and we can’t just rely on buses and trains,” said Hahn. “A water taxi would be a great time for visitors and residents alike and would keep traffic off our bridges.”
Long Beach Transit already operates two water taxi services: the AquaBus, which operates within Rainbow Harbor, and the AquaLink, which connects Alamitos Bay to Rainbow Harbor.