Long Beach is spending historic amounts of money trying to fix its deteriorating streets, but it cannot say if it’s spending that money effectively, a recent city audit has found.
These findings, among others, were contained in an 84-page report recently released by City Auditor Laura Doud, which compared the cost and status of road repairs from 2020 to 2024 in Long Beach to a dozen other areas, including the city and county of Los Angeles, San Jose and San Francisco.
Examining road studies from 2018 to 2023, auditors found local streets were highly deteriorated compared to other cities. More than 150 miles of city roads had fallen into the worst-rated condition. As of 2023, more than a third of city streets were in “poor” or “very poor” shape. These roads are in such disrepair that they cannot be patched and must be resurfaced…