Manteca, in just a matter of years, will have the longest continuous dedicated urban bikeway in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.It also will be one of the few bikeways in California that connects most of a community’s major amenities. That is in addition to future segments that developers will pay for to tie neighborhoods to new employment centers and retail as they are built.Atherton Homes - the developer of the third phase of Union Ranch involving 64 lots south of Golden Pond Drive - will foot the bill for a segment to connect the bikeway being built in that neighborhood with the Tidewater south of Lathrop Road. That will happen prior to the acceptance of improvements for the final development map.That also includes funding for the installing of traffic signals for the Tidewater crossing of Lathrop Road just east of the Calvary Community Church.When work is completed, residents will be able to travel on foot or bicycle from the extreme western end of Del Webb at Woodbridge at Airport Way all the way to Woodward Park at the Wellington Avenue entrance using a separate dedicated bikeway.