[crazygringo]

I could just as easily say that your comment makes no sense.

Curb ramps are all over the place in the US too. And I don't know what on earth Germany has to do with anything.

But the point is, if you force them to be constructed, then you need to pay for them. Maybe it's a "kick in the balls" as you put it, but without funding what exactly do you expect the city to do here? It can't conjure extra money out of thin air. LA isn't ideologically opposed to the ADA or anything. But it needs a whole bunch of money to be able to follow it. Money which hasn't been raised for it.

Regardless of the past history, passing a law forcing the city to do something without giving it the necessary money to do so is not a strategy that works.