Don’t expect any Herculean effort to find a way to move traffic quicker through downtown Manteca.
That’s because the city’s proposed update of the traffic circulation plan concedes it is way too expensive - and disruptive to commerce and residents alike - to try and significantly improve traffic flows in a 40-block area of central Manteca stretching along Yosemite Avenue from Walnut Street to Powers Avenue and Main Street from Wetmore Street to Alameda Street.
The only workable solution to meet the best possible movement of traffic would involve widening both Yosemite and Main and hacking up numerous properties.
The policy statement included in the traffic circulation notes pedestrians and bicyclist access is important in the downtown area. Traffic that flows as freely as possible would make it less hospitable to pedestrians who have to cross streets to go from one business to another.
Overall, the city is backing off its previously adopted gold standard of striving for free flowing streets throughout the city. By free flowing that means absolute minimum delays at all hours of the day.
The reason has to do with reducing maintenance and construction costs for the required wider streets, larger intersections, and substantial right-of-way as well as trying to combat air pollution by encouraging more pedestrian and bicycle movements.
That’s because the city’s proposed update of the traffic circulation plan concedes it is way too expensive - and disruptive to commerce and residents alike - to try and significantly improve traffic flows in a 40-block area of central Manteca stretching along Yosemite Avenue from Walnut Street to Powers Avenue and Main Street from Wetmore Street to Alameda Street.
The only workable solution to meet the best possible movement of traffic would involve widening both Yosemite and Main and hacking up numerous properties.
The policy statement included in the traffic circulation notes pedestrians and bicyclist access is important in the downtown area. Traffic that flows as freely as possible would make it less hospitable to pedestrians who have to cross streets to go from one business to another.
Overall, the city is backing off its previously adopted gold standard of striving for free flowing streets throughout the city. By free flowing that means absolute minimum delays at all hours of the day.
The reason has to do with reducing maintenance and construction costs for the required wider streets, larger intersections, and substantial right-of-way as well as trying to combat air pollution by encouraging more pedestrian and bicycle movements.
