Los Angeles city streets will worsen and repairing them will become more expensive unless the city overhauls its approach to maintenance, according to a report from transportation advocacy group Streets For All.
Los Angeles city streets will worsen and repairing them will become more expensive unless the city overhauls its approach to maintenance, according to a report from transportation advocacy group Streets For All.
They could attempt a public transit system comparable to every comparable sized city in the country.
It’s rated as one of the best (sometimes the best) public transit system for a small->medium sized US city. That doesn’t stop the city council from continuing to annex every stupid exurb they can be bribed into taking on.
One of the exurbs they pulled in recently has 10m (32ft) wide roads! That’s in a neighborhood of houses. It’s not some freeway. In fact, it’s around a 3 lane freeway wide. Roads designed for people to drive 60mph, three semi trucks wide are about how wide the residential streets are. The sheer amount of pavement that introduces to take care of for a handful of houses is crazy.
A quick measurement that it has a total of 1.6km of linear road. That’s just over 4 acres of asphalt to maintain. All of that for a mere 76 houses. That’s 1/10 of an acre per house. The road maintenance alone will eat up about 30% of the property tax revenue from these homes. There’s no way the neighborhood will be a net zero on revenue for the city. It’ll be a huge revenue sink for now and forever more.