Glory days returning for Moffat?

Moffat Boulevard is slowly returning to its glory days.

This year the eastern end of Moffat will undergo a $2.6 million transformation.

Moffat Boulevard between Austin Road and Woodward Avenue will be widened to four lanes under a plan to secure employment centers in the first phase of the 1,039-acre Austin Road Business Park.

It will help relieve current congestion as southbound traffic on Moffat often backs up past Woodward Avenue during the afternoon commute period. The project, though, is primarily designed to handle major movements of trucks in and out of the business park that is expected to include major distribution centers.

There would also be traffic signals at the off ramps as well as at Moffat and Austin.

Ramps at the Austin Road and Highway 99 interchange would be widened including allowing the southbound off ramp to 99 to have two left turn lanes and a right turn lane.

In addition there will be two northbound lanes that will go down to one at Woodward as the left lane would be dedicated to traffic heading into Woodward.

The work will start less than a year after the city completed work on the $7 million transit center on Moffat at South Main Street.

Fifteen years ago, the Moffat corridor had a dive reputation.

It had deteriorated from its heyday when it was the southern Highway 99 entrance to Manteca. Once the freeway was completed in 1955 Moffat started a long downward slide. In 1995 motorists entered Manteca on Moffat via the left turn flyover from northbound Highway 99 that has since been removed. They were greeted by the old Moffat feed lot, the pulp smell on the back side of Spreckels Sugar, dilapidated gas stations, few trees, shuttered businesses, crumbling pavement, weed-infested lots, aging trailer homes, and motels that had seen their better days.

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Glory days returning for Moffat?