Construction Update – Grant Street/East Street in Concord
Pavement rehabilitation for the Grant Street/East Street Pavement Rehabilitation was paused during the winter-spring of this year, and construction will resume later this summer now that the City has received clearance to work in Caltrans right-of-way under State Route 242.
Upcoming work will include paving of Grant Street from Broadmore Avenue to (North) Gill Drive, curb ramp improvements, adjustment of utilities, traffic signal loops, and pavement markings and signs.
Project completion is anticipated for this fall, weather permitting.
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How about repaving/rehabbing Concord Av between Interstate 680 and CA-242?
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It’s HORRENDOUS… and worse when in my Aventador.
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@EXIT 12A….I know what you mean, my 2012 Coupe rides much better than my 2019 SVJ 63 Roaster.
Repave Meadow Lane, it’s the worst street in town.
Repave it all every 3-5 years you bums!
Does anybody know how they prioritize these projects? I can’t seem to make sense out of it. Maybe somebody from the city of Concord could post how they prioritize projects and then maybe in my mind, I could justify their salaries
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Cities who know what they’re doing and are methodical conduct “roadway condition assessments” by street segments and track the data in a database. Typically, heavily traveled roadways are repaved more often while residential areas are less prone to wear and tear.
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They also conduct inspections of utility companies and utility contractors’ work to ensure proper sawcuts, substrate profile, asphalt/concrete mix, and compaction to conform to their standards.
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Concord seems to be lacking attention to detail.
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They need to repave willow pass from Landana dr all the way to downtown concord
Yes that road is Awful.
Not sure what makes that section so valuable and a priority. Concord ave and Monument get far more traffic and are in terrible shape.
The City needs to repave almost every street in town.
The sidewalks are in deplorable shape.
The City is failing its Citizens by not maintaining the infrastructure.
All they can do is throw money at the homes less.
Gas taxes we pay in CA are supposed to go to maintaining and repairing roads in our fabulous golden state, yes? But wait, Sacramento has other plans for our tax dollars! The famous High-Speed Rail project has already cost us over One Hundred and Ten BILLION DOLLARS and not even have a mile of track laid. Now after cutbacks, they want to finish the Bakersfield to Merced leg in maybe 5 more years. As I see it, this will never be a cost effective transit system and will end up as another taxpayer subsidized system just like BART!
California Democrats don’t know how to build a railroad!
In the meantime, enjoy your lousy roads and be careful whom you vote for.
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Believe it or not, sidewalks are the responsibility of the adjoining property owner.
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I kid you not. Look up your jurisdiction’s ordinance.
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WC—CREEKER & ABE,
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Several years ago, Concord City Manager Valerie Barone stated that it would cost the City of Concord approximately $2 billion to repave every road in the city.
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Also, as we’ve become more efficient at refining a barrel of oil, there’s not only less oil left over per barrel to make asphalt, but what oil is left over is of lower quality than the leftover oil we had in years past, which has resulted in lower quality roadways that don’t last as long as they once did.
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So, about 15 years ago, the California legislature passed and Governor Schwarzenegger signed California’s “complete streets” law, which requires cities and counties, when improving existing roadways or constructing new roadways, to make those roadways accessible for multiple modes of transportation, other than for cars and trucks, by adding pedestrian sidewalks, and/or bike lanes, and/or carpool lanes, and/or commuter shuttle stops and/or lanes, and/or bus lanes, and/or light rail, and/or commuter rail, and/or passenger rail, and/or rapid transit, and presumably to connect those roadways with ferries and commuter air flights. Unfortunately, in the City of Concord, we seem to only really seen the addition of bike lanes, that go underused and unused, and we’ve lost needed parking spaces, have narrowed vehicles lanes, and lost roadway lanes as a result.
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The reason future infill housing projects throughout Concord, the planned housing projects on the 59-acre Haddad-Maloof property, formerly the USCG housing property, formerly-formerly the USN housing property, and the 2,275 acre former CNWS property, will be housing projects that fall under the control of individual HOA’s, because the City of Concord claims it doesn’t have and won’t have the money to maintain the streets in these planned development projects, so this way the HOA’s will be responsible for repaving and maintaining quality roadways, and the city is off the hook.
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Since those individuals running the City of Concord have repeatedly shown us all that they’re incapable of maintaining existing roadways and other infrastructure, then maybe they should take the hint of what’s staring them in the face, and not move forward with their dream of developing the CITY OF NEW CONCORD. If it were left to a vote of the citizens of Concord to determine the future use of the 2,275 acre former CNWS property, then somewhere between nothing and very little of the property would be developed. We are still waiting to hear how the existing citizens and residents of Concord will benefit from the development of the former CNWS property.
As one of my old managers used to say, “A steak dinner and a good cigar goes a long way with some people.” Think about it.
@BOB..….That’s what Monica Lewinsky said too.
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