L.A. City workers filled 11 potholes and made 28 skin patches on Will Rogers Road, the half-mile connecter between Sunset Boulevard and Will Rogers State Historic Park on January 5 and 6. City spokesperson Richard Lee said the winding two-lane road will be repaved before June 30. According to Lee, the Bureau of Street Services does not have information on when the badly deteriorating road was last resurfaced. Many residents living adjacent to the park are thankful that the road is finally on the list to be either reconstructed or resurfaced, but others, like Villa Grove resident Scott Gardner, while pleased with the progress, doubt that repaving will prove helpful until the drainage along the road is fixed. ’If they just repave, it won’t solve the problem,’ Gardner said. ‘There needs to be some sort of concrete channel or gutter to steer rain and irrigation water from off the road.’ On January 6, Villa View resident Joseph Somerville pointed out different areas along the roadway that were wet, even though there had been no rain since December 12. He showed the ‘alligators’ (broken pavement resembling an alligator’s back) that result when water seeps under the roadway, washing out the underlying dirt and causing the pavement to buckle and pieces of asphalt to ‘pop’ out. Next week’s Palisadian-Post will have an article addressing parking issues along Will Rogers Road and parking fees at the park.
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