The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
QUESTION: Do you think the local roads are in good condition? What roads are the best/worst?
Talk about it….
Overall: 7 out of 10
but it is the poor roads we remember
NO, … but some have been improved, … need a lot more fixed.
..oh hxxx no… Meadow Lane, YVR east of Oak Grove both west and east bound, Oak Grove YVR to the Concord border (Concord did a good job on Oak Grove north of the WC border & Carondelet to San Miguel), Concord Ave east of CC Blvd to at least Market, …just too many to mention. The sad thing is WC had committed funding to the YVR paving project (east of Oak Grove) but then “disappeared” about the same time the gold plated Heather Farms pool rehab and new city offices project materialized to the tune of $76M !!
It’s too bad that there is insufficient revenue to research and report on news such as this. There is more click-bait revenue in “A New Bra with Nipple Bumps!” than the work needed to figure out if and how a government shifts funds around.
Dodging potholes,
https://theweek.com/political-satire/1022035/dodging-potholes
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Alhambra Avenue between Highway 4 and the PH city limit. It’s a scenic drive too.
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They’re improving. They started repaving some of the worst streets in Concord a few months back, and they finally fixed Meadow Lane. Meadow Lane is a busy thoroughfare, especially during morning, and evening rush hour, and was in real bad shape.
Around my local area they are not that bad but what gets to me is all the cones they are using to guide traffic. One area where they put cones so far into the street the people who live there have to put their garbage cans almost in the middle of the street so the trucks can pick the garbage cans up. It reminds me of who got the contract for putting in all those dimpled plates that rock you grocery cart when you leave a store. Someone made big bucks for that one. The way I figure it, is you can’t figure to look out for traffic that’s your problem.
They’re called “truncated domes” and they’re for blind people so they know they’re about to step into a traveled way.
Really, so how are they going to negotiate the rest of the way if they didn’t know where they were in the first place. I would like to see how many blind people think these things have helped. So in the Safeway parking lot this is going to guide blind people back to their car to do what? Not drive for sure.
Yes, I’m starting to see an improvement. The city finally paved Wiilow Pass from Highway 4 to Landana. It took a long time. I’ve noticed other roads being paved throughout the city.
No, my car has been damaged several times by the bad streets in Concord. I drive in this lane because that lane has a pothole, then a pothole appears in the “good” lane. Vote the city council, that spends our road repair money to buy themselves votes, out of office!
Well, at least some of them. Though sometimes it feels like I’m driving a shalom road while trying to dodge the holes.
Absolutely!
Our gas tax has done an incredible job.
It feels like I am driving on clouds.
I’d gladly pay more taxes
Do I detect a bit of sarcasm?
Fourteen people didn’t get it.
Concord Blvd was destroyed when they changed the lanes and made it 60% bicycle and 40% vehicles.😖
Monument Boulevard needs reconstruction. While the Galindo intersections have been rebuilt, the roadways between need SERIOUS work.
Drive down Clayton Rd, between Denkinger and Babel Ln, heading toward downtown Concord; the middle lane has an open seam that is right where your left front tire runs, making for a very rough ride, and hard on your shocks.
Many of the issues on Clayton Road are from the constant use by trucks coming from the Clayton and Concord quarries.
As usual you are full of crap Concord Guy. Clayton Rd. is a designated truck route and engineered as such. Its many issues are a result of neglect and poor maintenance by the City of Concord and not the trucks using it.
There have been some good improvements made over the summer, but something that baffles me is the installation of the ridiculous white plastic poles around the area of Kaiser Shadelands. What is the purpose, other than making things difficult for drivers?
No but we are too worried about super important things like people’s hurt feelings
The California government imposed a12 cent gas tax increase in 2017, and promised the roads would be fixed with the money. They aren’t. It obvious that it has all been a bid lie and they have pocketed the money, like they always have.
What really irritates me is the shiny filler that’s used to seal cracks in the asphalt. It reflects headlights in the dark and when it’s raining and the sun when it’s daylight, making it hard to see the actual lines on the road.