Watch out for the new (coming soon) traffic signals on Contra Costa Blvd. at Alan Dr. in Pleasant Hill.
They’re on both sides of the boulevard, and they’ll be on before we know it.
This is going to be great for business at See’s Candy.
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Yippie! That intersection and the corner of Taylor & Contra Costa Blvd are so much better than they used to be. I feel so much safer. The traffic is so much smoother and easier to transition. Removing the dedicated Right Turn lanes, awesomeness!
O. I think I forgot to put that all in Sarcasm font, cause that was pure sarcasm.
Whoever redesigned the Taylor intersection and new stoplights at the Starbucks a block down should really be evaluated at work. What did they think would come out of this madness? They still have not figured out the timing for the light at the Police Station on Taylor. That light just goes red, no one there, but still goes red for 60-75 seconds, and why?
Oh I think you know the reason why.
It cycles in such a way to slow down traffic on Taylor. Cross traffic from Civic Dr. merging is incidental to it’s primary purpose of speed control.
Well said “parent” …. what were they thinking? Was the contractor the brother-in-law of the city mgr or something? Unbelievable how our tax $$ are wasted.
I wonder how much information was given to the citizens of Pleasant Hill before they voted for this? Removing lanes will likely be next.
When exactly have you ever seen a traffic control device come up for a vote by the citizens of City, County or State before it was installed or removed?!?
The bigger change was removing the merge lanes at Contra Costa Blvd and Taylor. A lot of money has been spent on that project, one that makes right-hand turns significantly slower. The benefit of the change isn’t immediately apparent.
Exactly what we need, more traffic at Contra Costa and Taylor! As a long-time Pleasant Hill resident, it’s disappointing to see these types of unnecessary projects popping up. Adding a light in front of the Police Station and the YMCA? Okay, fine. Taking away two of the four yield turn lanes at Taylor and Contra Costa? Completely unnecessary and a waste of city money- sure, you could say it’s for the sake of “pedestrian safety” at those crosswalks in the yield lanes, but I’d argue that some lighted crosswalks would be extremely effective in increasing pedestrian safety IF that was the prevailing concern.
I think the primary engineer on the Contra Costa/Taylor intersection project should sit in the traffic they’ve caused by taking lanes away and putting outrageously large sidewalks in their place. Same thing for the engineer who proposed this stoplight- we do NOT need another stoplight <250 feet away from another main stoplight.
The radius of the curb return going from south CCB to west Taylor is very small – about 10 feet, I’d guess. This will slow traffic way down. It should be at least 20 feet.
There are two ramps at each corner, one for bicycles and one for ADA, each with its own yellow truncated dome mat. I assume this is so that the numerous wheelchairs and bikes won’t inconvenience each other. But there are very few pedestrians at all and few bikes, so I don’t think this would have been a problem. On the whole, I dislike the entire design.
The Alan Drive light can serve some useful purpose – DVC drivers often clog that intersection , although the pavement markings say “Keep Clear”.
We’ll see how it works out.