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MAYOR IRKED ABOUT SLOW TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROGRESSS
Singh notes growing traffic congestion at Woodward & Main is why council moved to require such work to be done first
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The Woodward Avenue and Main Street intersection.

Mayor Gary Singh — just like countless constituents that are bending his ear — is frustrated at the slow progress being made to get traffic signals installed at the intersection of Woodward Avenue and South Main Street.

But as City of Manteca Director of Engineering Ken Jorgeson noted, the ball is in the court of the developer that agreed to do the work in exchange for being allowed to build 1,301 homes in the Griffin Park neighborhood generally to the southwest of the intersection and stretching to Tinnin Road and beyond.

Singh again brought the traffic signals up during Tuesday’s council meeting.

Jorgenson said the developer is working to obtain the necessary easements for the traffic signal and associated street widening.

The signals, along with a roundabout at the future intersection of Main Street and Raymus Parkway as well as a rebuilding of a stretch of Tinnin Road complete with new sewer and water lines, are required before the next phase of homes can be built.

Jorgenson indicated it is a significant undertaking of infrastructure.

City Manager Toni Lundgren on Thursday stressed the city is working with the developer.

That said, the project is the developer’s responsibility to pay for and to install as they agreed to do.

Singh is frustrated with the congestion that has increased since Griffin Park started building and selling homes.

“This is why we (the council) changed our policy,” Singh said in regarding to the timing of off-site infrastructure improvements regrading streets.

Singh was referencing work now moving forward before a developer builds any of the 827 homes approved for the southwest corner of Airport Way and Woodward Avenue.

The city required the installation of 100 percent of “off-site” improvements before homes could be occupied.

The developers of Lumina at Machado Ranch to meet their commitments are installing:

* traffic signals at Woodward Avenue and Airport Way.

*a roundabout on Airport Way midway between Peach Avenue and Woodward Avenue. It will be the first roundabout on Airport Way.

*a roundabout on Woodward Avenue at Bella Terra Drive.

 

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com