Los Angeles has approximately 7,500 miles of streets. At the current pace of resurfacing, it would take more than a century to get through all of them. The result is visible everywhere: crumbling pavement, potholes that persist for months after being reported, and a street infrastructure that costs exponentially more to fix the longer it is neglected.
Every year we skip the preventive work, we move closer to a crisis that costs ten times as much to fix. Career politicians have continued to chooe short-term budget convenience over long-term fiscal responsibility, and Angelenos are living with the consequences every time they drive to work, walk to school, or wait weeks for a pothole to be filled.
A city that cannot fill a pothole in a reasonable timeframe cannot ask its residents to trust it with anything more ambitious.
Clearing illegal dumping within 48 hours of report, doubling street sweeper frequency on the dirtiest corridors, and holding property owners accountable for sidewalk maintenance so no neighborhood in LA looks or feels abandoned.
Publishing fill time from report to completion for every ticket, by district, on the public dashboard.
Eliminating the single largest source of new pothole creation, which currently produces tens of thousands of pavement failures per year.
Bringing LA's per-lane-mile street maintenance spending up to the national benchmark for comparable cities.
Prioritizing busiest thoroughfares, then ranking streets by pavement condition score and weighting toward the 50 zip codes with the worst infrastructure.
Every pothole report assigned to a crew within 24 hours and tracked to resident-confirmed resolution before the ticket closes, backed by a live Road Conditions Map showing pavement scores for every street in the city and fed by annual automated road-scanning that identifies deteriorating pavement before it breaks, enabling preventive maintenance at 20% the cost of full reconstruction. Implement an audit team to confirm proper completion and keep systems accountable.
Lock in the full 500-mile corridor list by January 2027 and tie Olympic venue access route completions to binding contractor deadlines with LADOT.
