Street-Repair Plan Lacking, Audit Finds
Los Angeles officials have failed to provide the analysis and planning required to ensure that the city’s worst streets get repaved, according to an audit released Thursday by City Controller Laura Chick.
The audit found that there is no long-term plan for fixing the city’s streets and no complete repository of information and analysis to help city officials decide which streets most need repairs.
“The current practice of ‘dividing the pie’ by 15 council districts as a way of setting paving priorities does not make good policy or fiscal sense,” Chick said.
Street Services Bureau officials have agreed to follow recommendations in the audit to provide more planning and a scientific method of deciding which streets to repair.
About 3,150 of the city’s 6,500 miles of streets need resurfacing, which would cost $1.5 billion, but sufficient funds are not available. This year, only 285 miles of streets will be repaved.
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