COUNCIL SETS STANDARDS FOR BRIDGES.Byline: - Harrison Sheppard The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Tuesday adopted standards for city
bridges to get regular maintenance and renovation.
The city is performing a $386 million renovation project on 87 bridges, but before Tuesday there was no policy requiring them to be maintained in good condition. Tuesday's action - based on federal standards that assign letter grades to bridges - requires at least 70 percent of the city's bridges to be graded B or above, and prohibits any bridge below a D. The bridges now being repaired are defined as ``functionally obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed, 2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 447. , meaning the bridges are not wide enough or seismically deficient de·fi·cient adj. 1. Lacking an essential quality or element. 2. Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient. deficient a state of being in deficit. ,'' said Peter See, manager of the city's bridge improvement program. Overall, the city's bridges meet the new policy, but by instituting the standard the council can ensure that Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. continues to maintain them adequately in the future, See said. When the current renovation project is complete, 84 percent of the city's bridges will be graded B or above, he said. The $386 million project, which began two years ago, is being funded by state and federal grants and $44 million from the seismic retrofit ret·ro·fit v. ret·ro·fit·ted or ret·ro·fit, ret·ro·fit·ting, ret·ro·fits v.tr. 1. To provide (a jet, automobile, computer, or factory, for example) with parts, devices, or equipment not in bond passed more than a decade ago that was used to renovate City Hall. The project includes seismic retrofitting and widening some bridges for safety. |
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