{"id":7966,"date":"2012-02-20T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:31","slug":"urban-planet-where-the-sidewalk-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/02\/20\/urban-planet-where-the-sidewalk-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Los Angeles Sidewalk Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=26055\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sidewalks\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sidewalks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>L.A. has never been known as a sidewalk friendly city, but with a recent spate of lawsuits, sidewalk users are beginning to fight back. In several cases before the courts, disabled plaintiffs contend that the broken sidewalks which make it impossible for them to navigate their neighbourhoods violate the\u00a0<em>Americans With Disabilities Act<\/em>. Nearly half of all pedestrian paths in the city are in disrepair, according to city estimates. So will the pedestrians be successful in the challenges? It could go either way. Though the city has settled two recent cases for $85 million worth of sidewalk access ramps, the financial responsibility for L.A. sidewalk repair is somewhat murky. If pedestrians prove their case, the City will have to own up to $1.5 billion in repairs.\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-sidewalks-20120131,0,2914523.story\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/sidewalks.jpg\">LAist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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L.A. has never been known as a sidewalk friendly city, but with a recent spate of lawsuits, sidewalk users are beginning<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/02\/20\/urban-planet-where-the-sidewalk-ends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Los Angeles Sidewalk Lawsuits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302],"tags":[882,3002,3929,1731,550,725],"class_list":["post-7966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-facebook","tag-l-a","tag-la-times","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Los Angeles Sidewalk Lawsuits - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/02\/20\/urban-planet-where-the-sidewalk-ends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Los Angeles Sidewalk Lawsuits - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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