The City of Concord received news this week that it has been awarded $7.9 million in grant funds from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to support a massive street lighting and safety improvement project.
This is the largest grant allocation to any Bay Area agency from Caltrans’ recent effort to provide $225 million for projects designed to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries on city and county roads.
The funding for Concord will go toward installing new lighting, upgrading existing street and intersection lighting, installing pedestrian countdown signals, modifying signal phasing, and installing three new Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons and four HAWK traffic signals — systems that are used to alert motorists to crossing pedestrians. Funds will also be used for upgrading uncontrolled crosswalks and installing additional bicycle safety improvements.
Additionally, this grant will fund the entire LED upgrade for City streetlights that have not yet been upgraded to LED.
“We are grateful to Caltrans for recognizing the value of these projects to enhance safety in Concord,” said Mayor Laura Hoffmeister. “This funding represents a significant investment in the implementation of Concord’s Local Roadway Safety Plan, which includes various components toward the goal of achieving zero severe and fatal injuries by 2033.”
Over the last year, Concord has been successful in securing additional grants to fund its transportation safety projects. The City received $4.19 million from the One Bay Area Grant program; $2.8 million from Active Transportation Program/Caltrans; $632,000 from Congress; and $183,000 from Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Funded projects include:
- Willow Pass Bike Lane Connector
- Citywide Bike Lane Enhancements
- Galindo Street Multimodal Project
- Signal Timing at Clayton Road, Galindo/Monument, and Treat Boulevard
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Bike Lanes!!!
@WC—CREEKER~
Please take a drive through in those area(s), and then you will see it’s just not bike lanes.
The road(s) will get much needed repaving and signal timing is a must.
Wait just a DANG minute !
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SAFETY ? ? ?
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How about fixing cavernous POT HOLES ? ? ?
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While at a big box hardware store, priced bagged asphalt patch material, seeds and potting soil. Can’t decide which, patch some pot holes on my own or fill ’em with potting soil and plant flower seeds.
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What about naming pot holes after city council members and posting pictures of named pot holes on social media?
“What about naming pot holes after city council members and posting pictures of named pot holes on social media?”
Please do it. it would be great andprobably get a lot of likes and exposure!
Before retiring bosses were constantly saying I was a bad influence . . . . . . . they were correct.
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Like wiring a radio controlled cut out relay, boss is driving electric golf cart and it just cuts out an coasts to a stop. Boss gets out lifts seat to check connections, it all looks OK so he tries it again an we let him get 30 feet and hit the radio transmitter button again. Eventually he starts walking.
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Am too old and don’t have stamina any more due to health problems.
But would take great pleasure in seeing pot hole naming carried out.
Quickest way to motivate politicians is embarrassment.
Fix Meadow Lane.
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I don’t travel in that area much, but you are so right.
It needs help.
Pothole repairs and repaving should be the number one priority. Watch them blow it on something stupid.
Gotta envy the guy with 15 warehouses of green paint who got’em to paint bike lanes green.
Wonder what amount of campaign contributions made that happen.
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Amazing how long it takes, some politicians and unelected bureaucrats to pass a mirror.
Just what we need, more bike lanes that no one uses, and more traffic lanes removed.
Nothing for street repair, I guess the crappy roads will only get worse.
$7.9 Million for contractor kickbacks to the City Council.
Same old baloney.
Yeah, Funds to make streets narrower for motorists and larger for bicyclists.
Not everyone can or wants to ride a bicycle.
They already Ruined the Cowell Rd / Monument blvd intersection.
I’m all for getting people out of cars and on to bikes, but I don’t know anyone who commutes to work,, goes to school orshops from our neighborhood into the downtown area via bicycles. Perhaps repairing (paving the entire road not pothole replacement) on Willow Pass Rd before 2030.
I used to commute to BART on my bike each day. I had to take back streets because Clayton Road is too dangerous. I didn’t really want to take that route, but I didn’t want to be killed by a speeding, distracted driver, either. I suspect more people would ride their bikes (to save money on gas, if for no other reason) if it were safe to do so.
By my handy dandy calculator Concord, with this new money and what it got last year, now has 14.904 millions to spend on bike lanes and lights. Maybe if we are lucky they will fix a pothole or two as well. By the way, what is a Street Multimodal Project?
For the purposes of this grant, multimodal most likely means spending money on different forms of transportation nobody uses.
Multimodal – read “bike lanes”
The roads in this city are a MESS! I have to dodge potholes every day just to get to work and back. REPAIR THE ROADS!
dont forget the multiple times voters approved a sales tax increased for roadway repairs and public safety and got ZERO out of it.
These aren’t even pot holes any more, THEY’RE SINK HOLES! Fix them please!!!
“This is the only place in the world where the pavements consist exclusively of holes with asphalt around them. And they are the most economical in the world, because holes never get out of repair.”
—Mark Twain 1907
Fix the sinkholes on Treat & Meadow then repave … no brainer geeeez
Laura, Zero severe fatal injuries. You have to live in a dream world. Do drive?
Watch out for:
Sink holes
Pot holes
A$$ holes
How much does it cost to paint bike lanes nobody is using ? My area people use the bike lanes for walking and running.
Commiefornia
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