Manteca’s street work continues.

This time it is requiring detours on West Atherton Drive as well as along East Louise Avenue.

The intersections on Louise Avenue at Frank Avenue, Garden Gate Drive, and Souza Boulevard will be closed until Aug. 19 due to pavement improvement work.

The streets will be fully accessible via the Main Street to Jason Street detour and the Cottage Avenue to Alameda Street detour.

Starting today through Sept. 14, traffic on West Atherton from Airport Way to 1,200 feet east of Heartsong Drive will be shifted to the north side of Atherton Drive.

The work is part of improvements needed for the Manteca Crossing commercial complex now under construction on the northwest corner of Atherton Drive and Airport Way.

The complex includes:

*A four-story, 117-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel with 112 parking spaces.

*A Quik Quack car wash.

*Manteca’s second Chik-fil-A.

*what will be Manteca’s third Dutch Bros. coffee drive thru.

*A Maverik gas station with 14 fueling stations, 8 commercial fueling stations, and a 6,140-square-foot convenience store with 38 parking spaces.

*220 parking stalls situated around the 55,000-square-foot major tenant building developers indicated they are targeting a supermarket as the tenant.

*47,200 square feet of additional retail and restaurant space with 291 parking stalls. There will be eight buildings.

 The developers will also install traffic signals on Atherton Drive at Langum Drive as well as Airport Way.

The intersection closures on Louise Avenue are part of the $3.1 million project now underway to improve pavement between Main Street and the roundabout east of the Highway 99 crossing.

It also includes median work to address traffic flow and safety issues at the entrance to shopping centers saddling the mostly four-lane arterial.

It involves the two driveways from Louise — one accessing the center anchored by SaveMart on the north and one anchored by California Total Fitness on the south.

When the city in the 1970s approved both projects planning staff failed to make sure the driveways aligned.

The result created off-setting entrances that made turn movements more perilous.

Over the years there have been a number of fender benders in the area.

The solution is to extend the finger median that was installed when the 7-Eleven was built earlier this year on the northeast corner of the Main and Louise intersection to prevent people from turning left in and out of the convenience store/gas station.

When finished, left turns into the SaveMart center will be allowed from eastbound Louise.

Westbound Louise traffic will not be able to turn left into the center anchored by California Fitness.

The Louise Avenue project includes ADA access ramps at intersections.

It does not include work on the bridge deck that is the responsibility of Caltrans.

Nor does it include widening the two-lane bottleneck just east of Main Street.

The city has finished striping West Yosemite Avenue through downtown from Main Street to the railroad tracks. It completes the $100,000 pavement upgrade project.

Work will also start soon to improve Lathrop Road from Highway 99 to Main Street.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com