Stop signs are being installed at Spreckels Avenue at Phoenix Drive the week of Nov. 16.

It is part of ongoing city work to make driving — and crossing — Spreckels Avenue safer.

Sign-mounted amber pedestrian flashed activated by hand will also be installed nearby on Spreckels Avenue at the Norman Drive intersection.

The work is in addition to the latest paving project that completed a phased effort over three years by city street crews to improve the driving surface on Spreckels between Yosemite Avenue and Moffat Boulevard.

The city three years ago purchased additional street repair equipment to tackle more road work in house.

By doing Spreckels Avenue work in three segments over three years, the city was not only able to save money but it also accomplished the work at least two to three years sooner than if they had waited until they had the funding to contract the work all out at once.

The stop signs at Spreckels and Phoenix will be replaced with traffic signals when Prologis starts construction on a 289,499 square-foot distribution center on the 14.83 parcel south of the intersection between American Modular and J&M Equipment.

The sign mounted pedestrian flashers are being repurposed from Moffat at Garfield where a high intensity pedestrian signal known as a HAWK went operational in August by Manteca High.

Those repurposed flashers will be replaced with the city’s third HAWK pedestrian signal for Spreckels at Norman that the city had just received a grant for that will be matched by Measure Q sales tax funds.

The city earlier this year installed a pedestrian island midway across Spreckels at Norman to help improve the safety of those crossing the street.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com