On Thursday the United States Olympic Committee announced that it had selected Boston as the American city that will make a bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The USOC picked Boston over Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington in its hope to bring the Summer Games back to America after a 28-year break.

I grew up outside Boston, and while a tiny part of me is tingling with civic pride at the thought of my city hosting the Olympics, I mostly think this is a terrible, silly idea. (Most of my friends do as well.) Here’s why:

1. There is no infrastructure in place

Boston is a geographically small city that’s already overdeveloped. There is very little land here to build anything, let alone a bunch of stadiums and venues that meet the demands of the IOC.

Boston has promised to make a lot of the structures temporary, which I guess is supposed to be better? But it just sounds like more construction time — half the time spent putting these structures up, half spent disassembling and bringing them down. Great.

2. Transportation will be a nightmare

Boston sold itself as a frugal option to host the Summer Games, and part of that was by saying Boston would host a “walkable” games. That is all well and good, but if you know Boston, you know that the sites these events would have to be hosted at — Fenway Park, whichever colleges host gymnastics and other indoor events, TD Garden possibly, the new stadium they’re proposing in South Boston — are nowhere near each other.

Which means: Driving.

Driving in Boston is a harrowing experience. The roads, which are more or less the old cow paths in the city that they just paved over however many hundreds of years ago, make no sense. Streets are one way for a little while and then go one way the other direction. I know it doesn’t seem possible, but it’s a real thing in Boston. This happens frequently.

3. Storrow Drive

This gets its own bullet point. Storrow Drive is the single most terrifying road in North America. I will not be debated on this. It’s a 4-lane highway, but every lane correlates to a specific exit, but they don’t have any signs letting you know which lane correlates to the exit, so you just have to guess and then when you see your sign you swerve frantically to get in the proper lane. It’s insanity. And everyone is driving 70 miles per hour on it.

We’re going to add thousands of out-of-towners, people inexperienced on American roads, and shuttle buses to this mix? That’ll work.

4. Public transit won’t be a lot better

What about public transportation? Come on. The T is getting better but still a nightmare. I once got on a Green Line train out to Boston College on a Thursday night and got to my stop sometime early Sunday morning. We all made little shelters in different parts of the car and rationed food.

5. There’s no main stadium

Boston doesn’t have an Olympic Stadium or anything coming close to one. Just doesn’t exist. So they’re going to have to build one.

Olympic Stadiums are expensive. So the city and USOC will have to build one, which could cost taxpayers. They’re justifying it by saying that the stadium will be shrunk down after the games and turned into the city’s soccer stadium, but that doesn’t make any sense.

6. …because now the New England Revolution won’t get a new stadium for 9 years

This is the funniest part of the whole thing. By proposing that the new Olympic stadium will become the city’s soccer stadium, Boston has totally taken the responsibility off Robert Kraft and the Revolution ownership to build a proper home for their MLS team. Now the public will fund the team’s stadium and Kraft and Co. don’t have to worry about it for almost a decade. Keep slogging it out to Foxborough, Revs fans. Your (oversized and then shrunk, not really soccer-specific) stadium is coming in nine years.

7. Their proposal says that colleges could build some of the infrastructure

Awesome. Let’s have the private colleges build sports complexes and probably drive tuition up for the kids there. Good stuff.

8. There aren’t enough hotels

This city can barely, barely handle Orientation Weekend for all the colleges in town, and now you want to bring the Summer Olympics here? Does every Boston resident have to open up a spare bedroom or couch for visitors?

9. They’re already protesting

Of all the American cities being considered by the USOC, only Boston had protesters show up to the organization’s meeting last month. The IOC won’t choose a host city until 2017. The Olympics aren’t for nine years…and Bostonians are already protesting! This isn’t going to get better as things get closer, I can promise you that.