Manteca street crews will continue their effort next week to upgrade the city’s worst stretches of arterials and collector streets.

This time the effort will focus on Industrial Park Drive at Van Ryn Avenue where there is an abundance of potholes and cracked pavement.

Road work will involve both streets between 5 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 3, through Thursday, June 5.

Motorists should expect delays or plan to use alternate routes.

On Tuesday, the City Council  is expected to approve specifications and bid for pavement maintenance work in the Diamond Oaks neighborhood in east Manteca north of Louise Avenue as well as Crivello Estates to the southeast of Diamond Oaks.

All streets will be addressed in the Diamond Oaks neighborhood that was built in the early 1990s.

The work in Crivello Estates will involve Azalea Drive, Ashley Way, Granite Lane and the northern end of Vasconcellos Avenue.

The council is also being asked to authorize spending $324,000 to replace the city’s 17 year-old paving machine.

The paving machine has become less reliable especially since the city two years ago started stepping up using street crews to address more egregious issues with streets instead of going out to bid.

The city is aiming to utilize Measure Q funds, a temporary 20-year sales tax, to enhance street maintenance and pavement projects, including in-house work to save costs and improve efficiency.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com