Full Coverage: L.A.’s Broken Sidewalks
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Los Angeles’ crumbling sidewalks long have symbolized the challenges facing pedestrians in this car-dominated city.
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Los Angeles plans to spend nearly $1.4 billion over the next 30 years to repair its immense network of more than 10,000 miles of sidewalks.
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Los Angeles’ commercial property owners should be required to pay for repairing badly broken and inaccessible sidewalks next to their land, a city report released Tuesday suggests.
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Los Angeles is pledging to spend more than $1.3 billion over the next three decades to fix its massive backlog of broken sidewalks and make other improvements to help those with disabilities navigate the city as part of a tentative deal being described as a landmark legal settlement.
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Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez looks at some of L.A.’s notorious sidewalks.
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Los Angeles leaders planned to spend $27 million on sidewalk repairs this budget year -- much more than the year before.
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Geneva James pushed her walker slowly up the street in South Los Angeles Tuesday and joined the crowd gathered outside her home in a countdown.
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Two Los Angeles lawmakers on Tuesday abandoned the effort to put a half-cent sales tax hike for street and sidewalk repairs on the November ballot, saying more discussion would “only serve to strengthen” the proposal.
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Los Angeles lawmakers gave the green light Friday to spend $10 million to repair broken sidewalks next to parks, libraries and other city facilities.
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With the prospect of $10 million going back into the general fund June 30, the council has deferred action pending resolution of a lawsuit. In the meantime, the mayor has promised to double the funding.
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Bob Arranaga says no way.
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By all appearances, the city of Los Angeles now has a new standard for when it will send a crew to fix buckled sidewalks.
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During separate video interviews with the Los Angeles Times last month, candidates for L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel responded to questions from individual voters.
