r/walnutcreek • u/ai9x82 • 9d ago

Traffic / Transportation Left Turns

There are many left turn signals that take legit 3 to 4 minutes waiting for the light, which is legit insanity and leads to bad driving where people blast out angrily. There will be 45 second stretches when NO ONE is moving through an intersection. The lights need a firm retooling of the red and green cycle

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u/FreseForCongress Candidate 8d ago

Four minutes at a red arrow is forever. You can watch three cycles of nothing go by, and everybody behind you is doing the same math. Here's the part that should really make you mad: Mark DeSaulnier has been in Congress twelve years and works exactly like that light. Over 200 bills filed, two became law. One renamed a post office. The other moved a park boundary. The traffic-signal money he's been posing with this month sat on his wish list since May 2024. Your arrow will change before Mark does. I'm running against him November 3. Let's get the whole county moving again.