Enhanced pedestrian crossings and bicycle lanes are being added to Yosemite Avenue between Walnut Avenue and Main Street.

The work will also include a slurry cover for the asphalt between Walnut Avenue and the train tracks.

It is one of five projects the city is contracting out in the coming months that are in addition to in-house work conducted by the city streets division that is now underway on Spreckels Avenue.

 Other road upgrades or safety improvements that will take place include:

*Rehabbing streets in the Shasta Park neighborhood bounded on the west by North Main Street, on the north by East Louise Avenue, the east by Highway 99, and on the south by East Edison Street.

*Resurfacing Wawona Street from  Main Street to Union Road as well as adding bike lanes and ADA curb ramps.

*Traffic calming devices (speed lumps) along Wawona Street from Airport Way to Junction Drive as well as along Elm Avenue from West Alameda Street to Blossom Drive.

*Citywide Safe Routes to School Project including the installation of enhanced pedestrian crossings, curb ramps, HAWK signal at Moffat and Garfield, new signal at Main Street & Jason Street, and ancillary safety improvements in the vicinity of Brock Elliot Elementary, Golden West Elementary, Manteca High, Shasta Elementary, Sierra High, and Stella Brockman Elementary schools.

The work is in addition to North Main Street work now underway that is adding medians from Alameda Street to Northgate that includes some paving work, bike lanes being added, ADA ramps and high profile crosswalks being added. That work is now underway.

Mayor Gary Singh has indicated the temporary 20-year three-quarter cent Measure Q sales tax, to a degree, is helping some projects move forward.

That is especially true with the Shasta Park work that carries a price tag in the millions.

He noted the Measure Q spending plan is allowing the city to augment other sources of road work dollars by at least $2 million a year.