L.A. to Fix Sidewalks - Not This Century
19 June 2000 - 3:00pm
Daily News calls the City Council's efforts to fix L.A.'s sidewalks too little, too late.
A Los Angeles Daily News editorial charges that for the past 20 years the Los Angeles City Council has largely ignored the problem of L.A.'s crumbling sidewalks. As a consequence, L.A. taxpayers have had to pay off numerous sidewalk accident victims accounting for millions of dollars. Last year's total was $2.7 million. The Council's "solution" is to fix 46.5 miles of sidewalk this year--46.5 miles of L.A.'s 10,000 miles of pavement. The council ridiculously plans to employ six officials to walk every foot of the city's sidewalks to assess the damage.
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Los Angeles Daily News, June 19, 2000
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sidewalks/driveways
I am really disgusted with the sidewalk and driveways @ my home and neighborhood. I called and talked to city people about the problem. They send a truck to (in their mind) fix the problem. What they do is pile more asphalt on top of new crack and holes and asphalt on top of old asphalt. I'm disabled w/m.s. and have tripped over the asphalt in my driveway with forearm crutches, a cane and also flipped on my scooter. We know what the sollution to the problem is but the city just does'nt care or is just that broke. Not even a mile away they fixed several blocks of sidewalk and driveways. I'M TIRED OF GETTING HURT...