Will Los Angeles’s rundown city streets and sidewalks be ready in time for the 2028 Olympics?

A pair of L.A. council members say they want to speed up the city’s ongoing efforts to fix its failing roadways and buckled sidewalks, and there may now be new sources of funding to achieve that.

In a motion introduced Wednesday, Council members Mitchell Englander and Joe Buscaino pointed out that 38 percent of the city’s 8,700 lane miles of city streets still have failing grades of D or F, and the city has only just begun on a $1.4 billion plan to fix sidewalks over the next three decades. The motion was seconded by Councilman Bob Blumenfield.

The council members say there is potentially funding available from the countywide Measure M, a sales tax hike approved by voters in 2016, and a state senate bill that increased the gas tax by 12 cents per gallon to fund highway and street repairs.

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“With the Olympics only 10 years away, we need a plan now detailing how we’re going to get our City’s infrastructure in shape for the games,” Englander said in a statement.

“The voters of Los Angeles have given us an incredible opportunity to fix our broken streets and sidewalks and to do so in a timely manner,” he added. “The revenues are there, it’s up to us to make a game plan and execute.”

Buscaino said that “now that we have the money,” it’s time to get started on the projects.

He also noted that “accelerating the repair” of the city’s “broken streets and sidewalks” might also allow for repairs to the rest of the city’s “failing infrastructure including water mains, sewers, and the high injury network.”

Buscaino and Englander say they have been pushing for more action on fixing L.A. streets since releasing a plan, called Save Our Streets L.A., in 2014. But the new revenue sources could allow the city to “front-fund” the city’s planned sidewalk and road repair projects. The city might be able to borrow against the anticipated, future revenue, they said.

Englander spokesman Colin Sweeney said the city had been “looking at a 60-year timeline for street repairs based on 2014 funding levels.” And after a settlement with disability rights groups obligated the city to spend $30 million a year to repair sidewalks, it was still going to take about 30 years to finish the job, he said.

“The Olympics as you know are in 10 years so you can do the math there,” he said.

Sweeney said the city does not yet have a “comprehensive plan” for how to use the new funding from Measure M, and the state bill, so the motion authored by the two council members would create a “front-financing plan for using those funds and expediting infrastructure improvements.”