Street repair plan hits a bump

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's idea to tap voter-approved transportation money to fix Los Angeles' streets has hit a roadblock with some City Council members, who worry the public won't get a say in the $1.5 billion plan. Dakota Smith in the Daily News.

Revealed last week, the mayor's L.A. Road Works plan would repair one quarter of the city's 6,500 miles of aging roadways by borrowing against Measure R revenue, the half-percent sales tax approved in 2008 to pay for transportation projects.

Major arteries and roadways from San Pedro to Sylmar would be repaved, repaired, and resealed under the proposal, which would fix some streets that haven't seen repairs since the 1950s.