REAL ESTATE NEWS (Los Angeles, CA) — Urgent bulletin for Angelenos who walk on sidewalks: The dangers have been increasing as the City of Los Angeles fails to maintain safe walking routes, leading to horrific injuries and potential death.
Many industrial loft projects in the arts district extend the revitalization they bring to former industrial sights turned residential right to the curb by repairing sidewalks and curbs to make the property more appealing. That is why they call it curb appeal. But for the rest of the city, crumbling sidewalks and eye-sore obstacles are more of the norm. Let’s face it, this city can be a fright on foot — and worse: dangerous and deadly.
Now that copper and other metal values are going through the roof, homeless thieves seem to be stripping the city of its electrical wires and other valuable commodities. A man was critically electrocuted in 2017, yet Los Angeles has even more exposed wires on sidewalks today. More of these very deadly high voltage lines on the L.A. River Broadway bridge, where many talk to Elysian Park, were reported months ago, yet are still exposed today, threatening pedestrians with electrocution in busy areas of Central Los Angeles with large quantities of foot traffic near Downtown Los Angeles.
Within the same week, the Loft Blog team encountered many dangers on Los Angeles sidewalks. The shortlist includes holes in the sidewalk where the pavement has either buckled, eroded or been chipped away, exposing high-power electric lines that unhoused folks tap into for power, insurmountable obstructions, large oil spills, and trash in the form of multiple banana peels. Slipping on a banana peel is only funny in the movies. Walking by the quickie mart, a melted mound makes me ponder whether it’s poop or chocolate. The song “Nobody walks in L.A.” rings prophetic, as Los Angeles sidewalks appear more and more like developing world infrastructure. Not familiar with the song? That’s OK; it’s from 1980, which is old, as is our city’s infrastructure.
The city of Los Angeles has a sidewalk repair program. Check out this link to the safe sidewalks program for details.
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