Moffat Boulevard between Austin Road and Woodward Avenue will be widened to four lanes under a $2.6 million plan to secure employment centers in the first phase of the 1,050-acre Austin Road Business Park.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.There would also be traffic signals at the off ramps.The improvements would allow the addition of more truck traffic through the Austin/Moffat intersection to reach distribution centers expected to locate in the 600-acre business park.Currently southbound traffic on Moffat often backs up past Woodward Avenue during the afternoon commute period. Widening Moffat to four lanes will ease some of that congestion.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 unto Woodward.Developer fees will cover $800,000 of the cost.The city would like to start work this year on the improvements.Ultimately, the existing interchange will be replaced with a new one with a six or eight lane bridge deck that would cross both the freeway and railroad. It would be located about midway between the 120 Bypass and Jack Tone Road and would serve future growth in both Ripon and Manteca.