Between now and October 20, the City of Concord will have construction crews performing nighttime roadwork in two parts of the city, resulting in roadway closures and detours between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The two projects are:
Willow Pass Road, between Landana Drive and Avila Road (toward Highway 4) will be fully closed at night starting Sunday, Oct. 15, for five consecutive nights. This closure will allow the contractor to safely perform long needed repairs to the base pavement and overlay a fresh layer of asphalt.
Grant Street, approaching and passing underneath CA 242, will have intermittent nighttime closures starting on Sunday, Oct. 15, and continuing through the end of the month. These are anticipated to be partial, not full closures, to accommodate work on curb ramps and storm drain inlets in preparation of the paving work planned to start in November. During the night work, the contractor will maintain at least one lane of traffic throughout the area and will detour traffic whenever an on-ramp or off-ramp is temporarily affected and closed. The Grant Street and CA 242 northbound off-ramp will remain operational during the Market Street at CA 242 closures as part of the designated detour route.
In addition to this work, construction on the Meadow Lane/Market Street paving project (at Clayton Road and CA-242) will get underway during daytime hours beginning on Monday, Oct. 16. The contractor will be paving along Market Street and Meadow Lane between North Belmont Road and Monument Boulevard during typical daytime construction hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Please be mindful of traffic delays if you are planning to use Market Street and Meadow Lane. One travel lane in each direction will be maintained for vehicles throughout the work period.
In addition to notifying all emergency services dispatch, including fire and police, and local transit agencies, 511 will also be informed. The 511 traffic alert service typically updates map navigation apps to help individuals avoid these closure areas.
Concord’s extensive roadwork is the result of the City’s two-year, $120 million Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) budget, made possible by voters’ 2020 approval of Measure V, a one-cent use and transaction tax intended to maintain a reliable source of local funding. Measure V generates about $32 million annually and is invested by the City Council into community-identified priorities, including roadway improvements throughout the community.
Good for you guys, long, long overdue.
… made possible by voters’ 2020 approval of Measure V, a one-cent use and transaction tax ..
On! Right! That was the year the majority of the population was insisting on “No New Taxes, “ the budgeting was vague and nonspecific, the Measure was rewritten after the Primary to make it more palatable, and nobody could believe it’s passage was legitimate … after all it was a predominantly “liberal” election.
Staff may be attributing this to Measure V but the reality is the work could have been done without increasing this regressive tax. Council gave itself a $2500 a month stipend increase ($500 each per month) this year and gave two of the highest paid staff – the city manager and city attorney – 5% raises each this year and promises of 5% increases each next year (not dependent on performance) and 4% increases each the following year (again not dependent on performance). As of 2020 , the city attorney’s base pay was $252,819.98 with a total of $388,229.37 after benefits and the city manager’s base pay was $281,838.97 with a total of $496,919.51 after benefits. They are lining their own pockets and pensions with this regressive tax that does not sunset while the lowest paid workers pay the highest amount of Measure V from their income. The hired a community services manager to coordinate dealing with the homeless plan and then had to hire an outside consultant firm to help her. The city manager has now advised council that she will hire another staff member to deal with rent control if the council passes it. The roads could have been fixed without the increase. If you voted for the increase, you were duped and added to the financial burden of people who are on fixed incomes and one healthcare emergency away from becoming homeless.
What took so long? This road receives more traffic than just about any other in Concord with the exception of Clayton & Concord roads. This has needed repaved for more than a decade! That road will throw both the alignment of your vehicle and your back out. Way overdue!
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The Concord City Council chose to delay the repaving of this section of Willow Pass Road because they wanted the Master Developer of the former CNWS property to repave it. This repaving of Willow Pass Road is expected to last 5-7 years. I’m surprised the City of Concord is giving Measure V, the permanent 1% sales tax, credit for the repaving of this road, as previous communication from the city suggested that American Rescue Plan money from the federal government was going to pay for this project.
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The City of Concord just spent $5.4 million on homelessness, $2.4 from Measure V and $3 million from the American Rescue Plan.
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Vote these Concord City Councilmembers out of office and replace them with Councilmembers that’ll fire the Concord City Manager and the Concord City Attorney.
Anyone that drives Concord Blvd has got to be as pissed as I am. They went back in time 35 years. The originally widened the road because traffic was getting bad now it’s even worse and they put it back to one lane “what the hell”? Now traffic backs up in both directions really bad and there’s five times as many people in this town and there was 35 years ago. Plus Concord boulevard really wasn’t bad at all didn’t need to be repaid farm bureau needs to be finished from Walnut upto Clayton road. They call it make it improvements all they’ve done is make things worse.