LA launches first Capital Infrastructure Programme

Mayor Karen Bass has released LA’s first Capital Infrastructure Programme, a comprehensive plan to build and maintain streets, parks, and other public spaces. Bass was joined by members of the City Council to issue the programme as part of her work to take on long-standing challenges that have held back the city. 

The programme aims to forge a new path, enabling Los Angeles to plan, prioritise, and finance both significant capital projects and ongoing maintenance programmes with greater accountability, clarity, and purpose.

Data-based foundation

It will include 10 recommendations to achieve this vision by reforming City processes and the Charter. Greater transparency is also achieved by laying out a data-based foundation regarding how and where the City must address short and long-term infrastructure needs. 

“I ran for mayor to break away from the City’s broken system that has left us with deteriorating streets and repair backlogs that piled up for years,”  said Bass. “With my Capital Infrastructure Programme, we are forging a new path together to better design, maintain, and deliver – on time and budget – the infrastructure that Angelenos deserve.

 “Los Angeles has a lot to fix, but fixing what is broken cannot mean rebuilding the same system we inherited. Much of our infrastructure was designed decades ago for a different Los Angeles, one built around cars first”

“We will finally responsibly plan for long-term improvements to our streets, sidewalks, parks, and every piece of infrastructure across Los Angeles.”

The City said the last three decades, the lack of a Capital Infrastructure Programme has led to systemic underfunding of infrastructure projects and maintenance of City facilities, infrastructure, and public spaces that Angelenos rely on every day. To tackle this long-standing issue, Bass issued Executive Directive 9 to streamline the delivery of infrastructure projects in a way to benefit Los Angeles for decades to come.