sidewalks

The dangerous sidewalks around Los Angeles are making it dangerous for people to walk around. Joel Grover reports for the NBC4 I-Team on what the city can do to address this issue.

The NBC4 I-Team has found that the city of LA has a backlog of 50,000 complaints about broken sidewalks. An audit conducted by the city controller last year said sidewalk repairs are taking way too long in LA, costing the city about $7 million a year to settle injury claims.

A San Diego City Councilman is behind a new plan to fix what he said has fallen through the cracks: the city’s sidewalks. While the city has done its best to fix thousands of cracked, misaligned, and otherwise hazardous sidewalks over the last few years, it’s paid out millions of dollars to plaintiffs who have been hurt by them....

The city has paid more than $5 million for injuries in trip and fall accidents on streets and sidewalks in the last 18 months, including a $1 million settlement this month.

As part of an effort to repair all of the city’s sidewalks over the next 30 years, Los Angeles officials said Tuesday they are increasing-by thousands of dollars-the amount property owners can receive through a rebate program.

Less than a week before he’s set to leave office, Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks credited a program he said started repairs on its 280th sidewalk Thursday, and vowed that work would continue on nearly 200 more after he leaves office.

Los Angeles — referred to as the broken sidewalk capital of the country — today agreed to spend $1.4 billion over thirty years to fix thousands of cracked, buckled, and dangerous sidewalks.