At least six more sections of Manteca residential streets where speeding has been a perennial problem are now on the city’s radar for speed lumps.

Four of the potential locations are on streets that have been turned into short cuts by motorists trying to bypass heavily traveled arterials such as Yosemite Avenue and Main Street.

Three are near schools and two near a park.

Mayor Gary Singh confirmed staff is looking at installing speed lumps on:

*Edison Street and Powers Avenue where Shasta School is located.

*Placer Avenue along the east side of Shasta Park north of Edison Street.

*Wawona Street between Main Street in the general vicinity of Sequoia School.

*Wawona Street between Union Road and Winters Drive.

*Wawona Street between Winters Drive and Fishback Road on the south side of the Sierra High campus.

*Pestana Avenue north of Louise Avenue by the Diamond Oaks Park.

The City Council in updating the traffic calming program rules adopted in 2018  opened the door for staff generated proposals to move forward with traffic calming solutions. They still need final sign-off from the council before being implemented.

Singh noted the streets involved have generated numerous concerns about speeding to council members over the years.

But residents complaining never took the time to make a formal request needed to trigger city staff to look at ways of calming traffic on specific street sections.

The current council had already eliminated the need for residents to collect petition signatures in the impacted neighborhood in order to get the city to look at the potential deployment of traffic calming measures.

The update adopted Tuesday moved the consideration of speed lumps up to the first set of options staff could weigh to address speeding.

It also included a directive for staff to address installing the speed lumps near existing schools and parks to slow traffic in a bid to increase pedestrian safety in areas with heavy foot traffic dominated by children.

The speed lumps, designed for roads with posted speed limits of 35 mph or below, effectively slow traffic as they need to be crossed at 5 mph or so.

Each speed lump installation costs around $4,000.

The passage of Measure Q — the three quarter cent 20-year sales tax that went into effect April 1 — has provided the city with funding to install more traffic calming devices without having to eat into existing expenditure plans or dip into reserves.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com