Manteca — for the first time ever — is requiring new development to install speed lumps on a new road being built.

The road section is the missing segment of Buena Vista Drive between where it is stubbed at Atherton Drive and a point north of Grafton Street.

It’s because common sense points to motorists in the future trying to use Buena Vista Drive to avoid periods of heavy traffic on South Main Street.

And like most shortcuts, those using Buena Vista Drive for such will likely exceed the speed limit.

It also means the speed lumps will be installed on the dime of Quarterra — the development firm building 818 housing units southeast of the 120 Bypass and Main Street interchange — and not in the future at the city’s expense.

Quarterra is also installing traffic signals at Buena Vista and Atherton.

A previous developer also foresaw the possibility of Buena Vista being eventually used as a shortcut.

It is why the city’s largest roundabout covering an acre that doubles as a low-key park was built where it intersects with Catmint Street north of Woodward Avenue.

Buena Vista runs along the western side and much  of the southern edge of Woodward Park and then curves further south for eight plus blocks where it is stubbed.

That stub will eventually be extended into the approved 738-home Hat Ranch project and connect with the future alignment of Raymus Parkway.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com

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