Contra Costa County Public Works began construction of the Kirker Pass Road Safety Improvements Project, along a 3.1-mile segment of Kirker Pass Road between the City of Concord and the City of Pittsburg, in unincorporated Contra Costa County.
Work began today and will last until Tuesday, January 25, 2022, barring unforeseen circumstances.
Work will occur between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday, weather permitting.
Electronic message boards will alert drivers of scheduled roadwork and lane closures. Restrictions will be in place to minimize impacts during commute hours. Drivers should expect delays.
Safety improvements include installation of guardrails, installing reflectors to the existing median barrier, painting the existing curb with reflective paint, placing delineators along the road shoulder and installation of street lighting at the two Hess Road intersections.
The traffic jams should be epic.
They already are without any construction.
Electronic message boards are positioned coming out of curves. Person who composed messages must have just finished War n peace. At posted speed limits is hard to read, due to message boards being in view for such a short time.
Why is it project slated for winter months ? ? ?
Passing lane project was shut down for weeks at a time due to too wet conditions.
See no mention of drainage issue, Pittsburg bound direction accross from where wood lot was. Driveway on right side, where A frame house was torn down leading up hill, during heavy rain water coming down hill flows across Kirker Pass Road causing vehicles to hydroplane towards cement center divider. Over correction causes vehicles off road on right side after tires again grip road. There have been several accidents in that area an fatalities.
Old rule in filmmaking and TV have the title cards readable twice before you move to the next one. There it would be reading twice before you passed it. Problem is no one on these construction sites gets any training for this.
That drainage issue was addressed during the truck lane project. I was very bad.
Simonpure, … On Pittsburg side of Kirker Pass, just as road flattens out after sweeping right turn. There is a gap in K-rail center divider and left turn lane (out bound from Pittsburg) CHP likes to sit on road outside gate going up to house / ranch up the hill.
Don’t believe truck lane project extended that far towards Pittsburg.
WOW. So Bailey is cut off and now this? I also question as to why would this be left in the winter and holiday season? Commuting from Antioch is going to be a wreck even more.
This is too funny, people are always complaining, “fix our roads,” Now that some fixing is getting done, people are still complaining.
The old saying is true. “You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.”.
… can you imagine the traffic jam west and eastbound? …. people will need to go super early or late or take alternate routes
Better idea: Rip out Kirker Pass from Pavilion to Pittsburg.
Best idea: cut off all the roads that lead from Pittsburg to the Concord area… These folks cause all of the traffic and are some of the rudest drives.
Wow! Billions of supposed gas and road taxes given to the coffers and they finally fix one small stretch of road. Very impressive way to pretend that the exorbitant amount of our money is being spent on what they claim to be a priority. Righttt……
@chuckie the troll…Meantime at the Animal Zoo, how many remember this little ditty from long ago?…https://youtu.be/mAG4kxpYcFE
… and why isn’t it being done at night? can anybody from the city, county or Caltrans answer?