Councilman Richard Silverman wants to put an end to the creation of traffic tourniquets created as Manteca grows.They’re the often maddeningly short stretches of pavement along major arterials and collector streets that are kept narrow between the end of a new subdivision and a nearby major roadway.On Tuesday when the Manteca City Council was being asked to allow Atherton Homes to start subdivision improvements before the map was filed for the second phase of the firm’s 356-home neighborhood east of Pillsbury Road, Silverman asked that such a tourniquet be addressed.In this case it is 510 feet from the end of the Atherton Homes project and where Pillsbury Road T-intersects into Woodward Avenue between Van Ryn Avenue and Atherton Drive.Silverman noted the city is creating a situation of sending more and more traffic down a road that ends up narrowing right before reaching Woodward Avenue.He said he’d like to see the city develop an “area of benefit.” It’s a mechanism that would allow the work to widen the remaining 510 feet of Pillsbury Road to take place now instead of later. In such cases the road work along a stretch of land that is not ready for development is funded by the city or an adjoining developer who is then reimbursed when the land is developed.Silverman noted the city has allowed similar situations to be created south of Woodward Avenue on Union Road and south of Atherton Drive on Main Street.