{"id":290250,"date":"2026-04-28T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290250\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:42:09","slug":"la-mayor-bass-says-shes-releasing-a-plan-to-address-the-citys-infrastructure-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290250\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Mayor Bass says she’s releasing a plan to address the city’s infrastructure problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Topline:<\/p>\n

The city of Los Angeles will soon roll out an infrastructure plan to address chronic issues like potholes and broken streetlights, Mayor Karen Bass told LAist\u2019s AirTalk on Monday.<\/p>\n

Why it matters: Los Angeles residents have long struggled with persistent infrastructure problems<\/a>. Bass said the plan will include a timeline and strategy to address those issues. The plan is said to include \u200ainstalling 60,000 solar lights around the city, replacing copper wiring that has been the target of thieves.<\/p>\n

What did the mayor say? Bass spoke with AirTalk’s Larry Mantle at Loyola Marymount University and said so much of L.A. is out of date. When asked why L.A. persistently struggles to address these issues, Bass said it’s the way the city was organized over the years.<\/p>\n

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“It’s what I inherited, and it’s what I’ve been tackling from Day 1 and plan to continue to do that because I find it to be woefully unacceptable,” she said.<\/p>\n

What else? Bass is running for a second term as mayor. Her incoming plan comes a week after one from Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is also running for L.A. mayor. During her interview on AirTalk<\/a>, Raman called out the city’s lack of an infrastructure plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: The city of Los Angeles will soon roll out an infrastructure plan to address chronic issues like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[37791,123957,4132,48,52,123738,51,47,50,49,80054],"class_list":["post-290250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-airtalk","tag-infrastructure-plan","tag-karen-bass","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-mayor","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nithya-raman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290250","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=290250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}