Walnut Creek Residents Turn To Crowdfunding To Finance Footpath Beside Dangerous Road

WALNUT CREEK (CBS SF) -- Walnut Creek is known as a safe city, but people who live there say there's a stretch of Walnut Blvd., between Homestead and Sierra Drive, that is anything but safe. Now neighbors are taking matters into their own hands.

Lucia Clymer well knows about the danger. A truck struck her here, shattering her lower back.

"I could tell I'd been hit in the back and landed in a driveway off to the right," she recalls. Lucia is convinced that a child, similarly hit, would have been killed.

There's no good place to walk -- on one side of the road is a culvert and on the other side, a ditch. It's about a thousand feet of danger but the city has said it would cost $6 million to fix because of drainage issues.

Area residents aren't waiting. They've launched a grass-roots fundraising effort to get a path built.

Their project, the Walnut Blvd. Safety Trail, has raised $3,000 at the online site GoFundMe. They need $13,000 and hope that people who use the road will pitch in.

They want to raise the necessary money by the end of January and they believe the path could be built before summer.

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