{"id":199440,"date":"2026-03-01T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199440\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:02:07","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-l-a-s-broken-sidewalks-hurt-people-in-wheelchairs-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199440\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: L.A.\u2019s broken sidewalks hurt people in wheelchairs the most"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: The article that mentions the city of L.A.\u2019s inability to build and maintain sidewalks fails to mention the most aggrieved party: people in wheelchairs like my wife (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-02-27\/more-than-100-million-for-transportation-projects-in-jeopardy-amid-la-budget-woes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMore than $100 million for transportation projects in jeopardy amid L.A. budget woes,\u201d<\/a> Feb. 27). We bought an accessible van with a side ramp and built a concrete path from the sidewalk to the curb. The ramp lowers onto the path, but the van must be parked in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>We submitted to the city a request for a blue-paint handicap-only parking space, but were rejected because the buckled sidewalk near (but not in front of) our house needs repair. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Stone, Westchester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: The article that mentions the city of L.A.\u2019s inability to build and maintain sidewalks fails&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[92761,92758,1409,92760,2072,92762,29459,2303,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,592,270,6247,92759,54810],"class_list":["post-199440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-accessible-van","tag-broken-sidewalk","tag-city","tag-concrete-path","tag-editor","tag-good-luck","tag-jeopardy","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-people","tag-repair","tag-request","tag-side-ramp","tag-wheelchairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}