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QUESTION: If you were in charge of fixing the roads in central Contra Costa County, what road would you start with, and why?
Talk about it….
Pine Hollow and YV
YVR especially from Oak Grove Rd east to the WC border – both west and eastbound…. Clayton Rd northbound from YVR to about Ayers … broken pavement, terribly rutted and chattered, they’re unsafe especially YVR at the speed limit
@domo
Absolutely Ygnacio Valley Road, both directions, from Cowell to Oak Grove. And definitely Clayton Road, but they have to go past Ayers. YVR to Concord Bart would be great.
I don’t know about the entire central county because I don’t drive all over, but at least
they’re repairing some of the streets in Concord. The street I would have started with
has recently been repaired, and that was Meadow Ln. They also repaired Monument
Blvd. Keep up the good work until they are all repaired, and I will be happy.
The answer is Cowell Rd. It is awful. It has no bike lanes, sporadic shoulders and is in rough shape throughout. It needs to be widened. It is a major thoroughfare but is still designed like a 1950s country road.
Bill Bob,
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I’d agree with you on Cowell Road, with the exception of adding bike lanes. Concord’s bike lanes have the notorious reputation and reality of being underused and unused, as they’re only being used by less than 1% of Concord’s population. Unfortunately, about 15-20 years ago, the State of California adopted “Complete Streets” legislation, which requires cities and counties, when rebuilding/repaving certain high traffic roadways in their jurisdictions, to add one or more of the following: sidewalks, and/or bike lanes, and/or carpool lanes, and/or bus lanes, and/or light rail, and/or inter-city rail, and/or commuter rail, and/or passenger rail, and/or mass transit rail. It’s bike lanes which just happen to be the least expensive option for cities and counties. The “Bicycle Lobby” is also extremely powerful throughout California, arguably more powerful in Contra Costa County, and even more powerful in the City of Concord.
Clayton Rd from Treat to YVR especially the outbound side. Lots of water damage & rutting.
It gets worse with each rain.
Ditto on Ygnacio, Clayton and Cowell. Some repaving was done on Cowell from Treat to Babel, but the rough bumps are still a problem. Babel to Mesa is horrible.
Pacheco Blvd
-train trestle to highway 4
Bailey Road is in need of being repaired. Then we have many streets which are in desperate need of being widened, such as the two-lane section of Willow Pass Road, as well as many of the streets of Concord where travel lanes have been narrowed and parking eliminated to accommodate underused and unused bike lanes, such as Market Street/Meadow Lane.