The Bureau of Street Services (StreetsLA) has not repaved a street since last June, and the city’s latest budget practically zeros out repaving for next fiscal year. StreetsLA crews are still doing some road repairs, fixing potholes and patching problem areas. But the most basic form of urban maintenance—full street resurfacing—has all but disappeared in America’s second-largest city.
Anecdotally, a residential street (four blocks long) was freshly paved two days ago in my neighborhood here in Los Angeles. A full resurfacing. I'm not even sure it needed to be resurfaced, but they did it anyway. It's not even in a "nice" neighborhood where you might expect more attentiveness to the roads.
Have the corners been updated? We had a big update to four or more corners in the neighborhood last year and it did feel a bit excessive. The old corners weren’t the ancient ones that require a step, they were already ramped.
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Anecdotally, a residential street (four blocks long) was freshly paved two days ago in my neighborhood here in Los Angeles. A full resurfacing. I'm not even sure it needed to be resurfaced, but they did it anyway. It's not even in a "nice" neighborhood where you might expect more attentiveness to the roads.
I wonder what to make of the contradiction here.
Have the corners been updated? We had a big update to four or more corners in the neighborhood last year and it did feel a bit excessive. The old corners weren’t the ancient ones that require a step, they were already ramped.
No corners. Just a straightforward paving.