October 29, 2005

"LA County needs to spend $50 billion on upgrades, engineers say"

One of the subtitles to this story should be: "Los Angeles County experiencing wonders of massive illegal immigration, almost all of it from the Third World."

This is also one of the causes:

Assemblyman Keith Richman, R-Granada Hills... said that under former Govs. Edmund G. Brown and Ronald Reagan, infrastructure projects comprised 15 percent of the state budget. Today, he said, it represents less than 3 percent.

However, we just can't continue to live in a fantasy world controlled by the far-left and socialists, some of whom have questionable loyalties to this country. Here's one example, and here's another.

From the article:

With crumbling streets, gridlocked traffic and mounds of trash, Los Angeles County's deteriorating infrastructure needs $50 billion in upgrades over the next five years to meet growing demands, a statewide engineers group said Thursday.

Of nearly a dozen infrastructure systems studied, the county's streets, highways and urban-runoff systems received the lowest grades - D's - while its solid-waste system got a B-plus. Flood control, wastewater and port systems got B's.

Giving the county an average grade of C-plus, the American Society of Civil Engineers warned that significant problems are on the horizon for the infrastructure unless there are changes in attitude and funding.

"If the county doesn't begin to make repairs now, if there is a failure, it could cost five times what we are talking about," said Harvey Gobas, chairman of the Los Angeles County Infrastructure Committee and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Los Angeles.

The report card, released at the group's annual meeting at the University of Southern California, comes as population growth increases pressure on county facilities, despite millions of dollars in recent improvements.

Gobas said traffic and landfills are among the most pressing problems.

Posted to Los_Angeles at October 29, 2005 03:03 AM

Comments

And the independent Legislative Analyst names
the cash economy as the big reason for the shortfalls. From my personal experience, this is the preferred method of doing business of immigrants in my town. Why doesn't the FTB go after these guys?

http://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/press/2005/05_33.html

Posted by: Pat at October 29, 2005 08:25 AM