If you’ve lived in Claycord for the past 50+ years, you’re gonna want to watch this Walnut Creek driving tour from Feb.22, 1981.
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Yeah, Walnut Creek is nice but it would be even better if our cities were more walkable and cars were going at a lower speed, like they do in Europe.
I like downtown Martinez because it feels like it is slow paced as opposed as constant traffic like it is near Target in Walnut Creek and all of “downtown”.
Cities should be built with the idea to be pedestrian, bicyclist, and mass transit accessible.
Not all of us want to be pretty much forced to have a car because taking public transit is a pain when it comes to route accessibility.
I could do so much more with the money I could be saving if I didn’t have car payments, gas (more taxes than gas), insurance, maintenance.
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You’re extremely unlikely to find the type of city that you have described within the United States, perhaps you should consider moving to one of these European designed cities that you’ve described and seem to like so much. Most Claycordians don’t want these types of changes forced on them and they definitely don’t want their cities turned into the types of European styled cities that you’ve described. You can’t really compare downtown Martinez to downtown Walnut Creek, one has a largely dead downtown, while the other has a thriving downtown. All of these underused and unused bike lanes that’ve been installed have been nothing but a complete waste of time and money, and have made an absolute mess of many Claycord roadways. Have you seen the complete mess that’s been made of Concord’s Meadow Lane and Walnut Creek’s Shadelands Business Park due to the addition of more underused and unused bike lanes?
WC was a different place, back in the day – especially for kids.
Riding our bikes every day to Parkmead school.
Summer vacation days spent at Dewing Park pool.
Pulling a wagon full of deposit bottles to Slo Sam’s market to get money to buy candy.
Slurpies at Speedy Mart(only coke and one other flavor).
Army Navy Surplus Store
Gemco
The bowling alley
The real Walnut Festival
Festival Theater
Morgan’s Machine and Marine- for the gearheads!
Looking at this then and seeing it now (same with San Ramon) … you can see the result of a lack of regional planning …. too bad…. the growth has been almost all revenue generation focused
They want it to be a transit village. Soon there won’t be any walnuts left in Walnut Creek.
Of course the nuts will remain, which is why we have BART.