You should be able to drive Atherton Drive all the way from Woodward Avenue just west of Moffat Boulevard to Airport Way by September.The City of Manteca is going to bid today for the project between Union Road and a point where Atherton Drive now dead-ends east of Sparrowhawk Drive.Bids will be opened Jan. 18 and the project awarded at a special council meeting several days later. The timetable will allow crucial work on a South San Joaquin Irrigation District lateral in the path of the Atherton Drive extension to take place before Feb. 15. That’s when the SSJID irrigation season starts.