The “Water Cooler” is a feature on CLAYCORD.com where we will ask you a question or provide a topic, and you will talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Do you live in a neighborhood that you think would benefit from more traffic control such as speed bumps, stop signs, roundabouts, etc.?
Talk about it….
No, my neighborhood isn’t too bad as far as traffic goes. There’s usually children out playing and most people seem to be aware of them..
Speed bumps are annoying, stop signs are useless because nobody ever comes to a full stop anyway, and roundabouts are expensive and a waste of money. What seems to help slow down traffic is those electronic radar signs that flash how fast you are going.
Totally agree with you on the radar signs. They have gotten my attention on a number of occasions, and consequently I slowed down.
Those signs are effective. So are dads with throwable objects in their hands.
Yes! We need a speed bump on David Ave for all those folks who use it as a shortcut and go 60+ mph.
I love the David Ave shortcut, but I can definitely see folks pushing it there
For those of us map challenged, David Ave is on west side of bart tracks Minert is on east side of tracks, and has an elementary school, Runs from Bancroft to Oak Grove.
Used to be back way home from Montgomery Wards.
Oak Grove is an intermediate school (aka middle school).
I was raised in that neighborhood & went to that awful school.
Everybody drove fast on Minert… even way back then.
Nope we walk out into the street flag ’em down an tell ’em to slow down, along with writing down plate number or taking photo or getting plate off our CCTV computer with it’s plate reading capture software.
Gotta love those joke “speed” bumps down in the state streets east of Ygnacio and south of Clayton Rd. For a smooth ride 34 mph or higher.
Effective speed bumps, Pittsburg. Will jar your fillings and adjust your spine.
Electronic radar signs on Kirker Pass don’t work so well in winter with less sun, perhaps batteries ?
Afternoons and especially weekend afternoons from Pittsburg headed to Concord Kirker Pass is an up hill combination drag track – slalom course of 65 – 70 mph plus. I stay in slow lane at 52 and watch the show pass.
What’s sad is these newer cars have such a problem with rapid acceleration up that hill. Where as, could hit the gas an (KD) LT1 Corvette engine they don’t realize came stock in my big American car would embarrass them,
but I don’t.
So much more fun when you catch back up to them a few minutes later parked on side of the road, handing over their license to the nice Officer.
Pedestrian crossing by the church on Denkinger Road would be nice. Four lanes of traffic is not easy to cross.
They added two more lanes? Guess it’s been awhile since Ive driven there.
We have all of the above in my Dana Estates neighborhood, but does nothing to slow down speeders. We need the good old fashioned Cop on a Motorbike like we used to, but unfortunately that will never happen again.
Yes! We live on Clayton Way and the speed bumps don’t extend the full width of the street. As a result, many drivers swerve onto the pedestrian area to avoid the bumps — and often speed up as they do. It’s only a matter of time before they hit a person or pet. Reckless and everyone on the street is talking about it.
Yes. On the streets around El Monte elementary. It’s ridiculous the way parents who are dropping off or picking up kids speed through there as though it’s Daytona speedway. It makes simply backing out of a driveway very dangerous. It would also be nice if parents would recognize that there is only ONE of those streets in that area that is a one way only street. The rest of those streets are in fact two way streets and the rules of right away are NOT suspended simply because you need to get to that school. If you think it’s a pian in the a** just trying to get your kids to school, imagine what it’s like for the people who live there.
I’d like to see the residential speed limit dropped to 20 mph and enforced.
Your going to have to change the state law for that to happen. Good luck with that.
Speed bumps were put in a couple of decades ago on a key street in ours. We are a divided household in that I love them and my spouse hates them ; ). Much safer for the kids who are out playing in the neighborhood AND I immediately noticed a HUGE reduction in traffic noise day and night in the neighborhood, because previously cars used to use that residential street as a high speed thoroughfare.
A crackdown on the kamikaze jaywalkers of Clayton Rd would be wonderful.
I realize most of them are tweakers who will never pay the fines, but pretend you care CPD.
Unfortunately Police Enforcement of jaywalking just pegs you as racist to the social media trolls so why bother.
YES! Bailey Road is a race track. Speed bumps would be an excellent idea. The murdercycles are the worst. 80 90 100 mph all the time.
Yikes. I certainly hope you are not talking about West Leland Road to Concord because that idea would just be a death trap. You don’t put speed humps on arterial streets with high speeds.
Earlier today I heard on the radio a new type of neighborhood speed bumps called pillow bumps. Made and set so that emergency vehicles wheels can roll on the outside edges but autos go over them just not as high as before. I think they should be used around schools! Also where the ding bats like to do their doughnuts in neighborhoods.
Traffic control? Not really…
Birth control? Absolutely!
3 of my neighbors are going to pop any day now.
Quarantine babies.
Traffic calming are speed humps. Concord calls them speed bumps. If Concord would change them to true speed bumps it would slow traffic.
They use the humps as launch ramps. I do get a kick out of the cars that are too low and bottom out when they don’t slow down.
I have a good laugh every time.
What’s really needed is more officers for traffic. You can do just about anything you want to do out there and there is never any officer that will pull some one over for anything. I also think if we had more traffic affixes enforcing traffic and vehicle codes it would drop the amount of other cities low life’s from coming to Concord to commit there crimes. If there is a chance of them being pulled over for any violation ( which a lot of there cars do have) they would be less likely to go where they would end up being caught at. Speeding red light running and other illegal moves would go down to as more people are cited for there refusal to follow the rules of the road. Safety in our city would improve
Like I’ve posted previously: my retired cop friends have told me that Cops are too lazy or too scared to pull anyone over these days. Too many of them get shot or disrespected. Also too much paper work for every kind of violation or arrest nowdays. Also they took away most of the Motor Officers from the streets in almost all cities around here.
@sick of it, you are 100 per cent right. It’s good old common sence which seems to be rare these days. Thanks for putting it out there.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood, real tough. It wasn’t until I was eight years old I figured out we lived under a freeway bridge and the cars were always honking and swerving whenever I went outside to play.
Speed bumps and such are a band-aid.
The problem is that our whole area has mass commuting going through residential areas, and there’s not enough enforcement.
The second problem could be helped with more and better policing. The first problem is bigger: imo the big traffic arteries that are like semi-freeways need to be *more* like freeways in terms of separation for residences and pedestrians. Like the expressways in the south bay. Treat and Ygnacio are kind of like that already in some parts. Let the thru-commuters flow through safely at higher speeds with fewer lights, but keep that separated from peds and residences. Then make the other streets slower: not just by posting a lower speed but designing the sightlines and so on so it *feels* like a slower zone to the driver. If the road looks and feels like a racetrack, the posted number can only do so much.
A lot of our streets are trying to be both: massive commute arteries and full of sidewalks, curb cuts, too many intersections – too much going on for that volume and speed to be safe.
How about people quit using Treat and Ygnacio as ‘freeways’. They should stay on Highway 4 to get to 680/24. No cutting through town as a short cut. That would help tremendously.
The REAL problem is that nobody seems to give a you-know-what about anybody but themselves anymore. Courtesy and respect for others have gone out the window like burning cigarette butts.
@stopthe
Who are you to tell people where they should and shouldn’t be driving on public streets?
If you look at the old development plans, Ygnacio was the 3rd East Bay highway running east-west in addition to 4 and 580. Which was a perfectly reasonable idea considering the distance between 4 and 580 and the number of people living in the corridor. And then Walnut Creek decided to build out the area.
The fact that people are using Treat and Ygnacio as freeways only confirms that the third highway was very much needed. Oops.
But as long as the cities can do as they wish and grant development permits with no regard to the overall traffic flow (see Pittsburg adding another 1.5K homes amounting to another 2K cars on 4 and probably Treat), you’ll have to suck it up.
I suspect it is too late to cut off people from using Ygnacio as a commuting corridor. Looking at the map, it’s pretty sensible to have an artery there. I would say 4 is impacted enough already!
Either way there is a mismatch between building, commuting patterns, and type of roadway. That’s the big problem.
… no, way too many signals as it is… and traffic signals / lights aren’t in synch at all…. timing at pedestrian crossings aren’t synched with traffic either – they become red almost immediately and have seen accidents as a result… poor planning city to city also.
Turtle Creek development needs this as to many speeders and people who cut across Ygnacio Valley Rd to use Treat Blvd.
YES! Commercial trucks need to stop using 6th Street as a truck route. It is one of the streets in Concord that has been repaved. It has stop signs and traffic calming bumps.
It is used as the main thoroughfare, not only by personal vehicles but by cement mixers, dump trucks full of gravel, semis with trailers, and other overweight trucks that use it as a shortcut instead of using the City of Concord Truck Route.
The City refuses to post a sign about the weight limit or it not being a truck route.
With the number of overweight trucks driving on 6th Street every day, it will need to be repaved again, wasting tax money that is needed for repaving the main streets.
The City had officers patrol 6th Street for a total of ten hours (half of the time was in the evening) over several days and ticketed a couple of truck drivers the first day.
If anyone on 6th Street between Willow Pass and Clayton Road has a camera that records the street, send it to the City Manager.
I have added a link to the City of Concord truck route map.
https://www.cityofconcord.org/DocumentCenter/View/470/Truck-Route-Map-PDF