It's Los Angeles' turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative of LA's local business — Tom Cruise — who in a pre-recorded trek via motorcycle, plane and parachute kicked off the countdown to 2028. Bass and the flag arrived back in LA Monday, after spending the games in Paris along with organizers and city officials, learning what it takes to host the world's largest sporting event. "To land here right now and to see all of these Angelenos here greeting us lets me know that it is on. And I hope that the excitement continues in LA, and we do all that we need to do to get ready for 2028," said Bass. A city that's notoriously hard to traverse may seem like an odd fit for the Olympics, but it can work according to Bass, "we want to make sure that we don't have the gridlock that we might have after a big event. We want to utilize remote work, but we also want to bring in thousands of busses so people can be transported to the events. So we are hard at work on that on the MTA board." Landing the Olympics under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2017 gave the city an unusually long lead time for planning. While it's no Paris Metro, LA has built a subway since its last Olympics, with lines running past major venues. "The biggest plan I will sign within the next couple of weeks, and executive directive, paying attention to our infrastructure to make sure our streets and everything else are prepared to do a plan to do that in our city, because we have a lot of work to do on so many different levels. And it's not like we haven't been doing the work, but now we need to put our foot on the gas," said Bass. In 2018, the city planned an ambitious slate of 28 bus and rail projects to transform public transit. Some were scrapped but others moved forward, including the extension of a subway line to connect downtown Los Angeles with UCLA, the planned home of the Olympic Village. The city will become the third in the world to host the games three times as it adds to the storied years of 1932 and 1984.