Manteca’s City Council needs to step up.The revelation that the 100 block of North Main Street is about to become the most expensive stretch of pavement in Manteca with the price tag of $1 million to rip out the much maligned bulb-outs and create two southbound lanes and one northbound lane while making the street whole again could make this a banner year for merchants selling pitchforks and tar.On one level it boggles the mind that for what it once cost to build a linear mile of freeway 30 years ago will barely cover the cost of switching one lousy fairly short city block from two lanes to three lanes.It isn’t as straightforward as it might seem. Irrigation pipes have to be removed. Concrete ripped out.