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Major Street Repair and Resurfacing
$500,000,000.00 - 2893 jobs - Streets/Roads Program
37% voted critical - 63% voted not critical - 472 votes cast
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[edit] Points in Favor
Los Angeles has over 7200 miles of roads, but their traffic congestion is still among the worst in the country. Excessive wear combined with frequent earthquakes constantly damages our streets.
Even if we only repair our roads every 100 years, that means continuously rebuilding 72 miles per year!
The streets of Los Angeles are so bad that some have never been repaved since they were originally paved over 50 years ago. Heavily traveled and famous Wilshire Boulevard runs from downtown Los Angeles to the famous Santa Monica Pier is rutted with potholes over its entire distance of 16 miles. The project of repaving this important thoroughfare is just one of many. Estimated cost is $60 million. There will be about 350 people involved in this endeavor.
Citizens of California pay more in federal taxes than they get back yet the citizens of Missouri and South Dakota have no problem with that. You can't complain when California gets some federal assistance.
[edit] Points Against
The citizens of Missouri and South Dakota should not have to repave LA streets. LA has a much higher average per capita income. Let them pave their own roads.
We need road repairs, but $500,000,000? All they do is send out guys with buckets of tar and shovels, and they just make patches. How much does that cost?