Parking on MOFFAT CENTER AT MANTECA TRANSIT CENTER

TRANSIT CENTRE PARKING ON MOFFAT

Commuter parking is being built in place of an old recycling center.

It is expected that the Manteca City Council tonight at 7 p.m. will approve the purchase of 046 acres to expand the parking lot of the Manteca Transit Center located at 346 and 372 Moffat Boulevard, where the former Manteca Recycling Center once stood. $350000 was the price agreed upon.

State Senate Bill 1, which put the gas tax hike into place, included $400 million for Altamont Corridor Express service to expand into Ceres by 2023 as part of the deal.

It also includes stops in Menteca, Ripon, and Modesto.

Three northbound ACE trains will originate in Ceres and travel to Natomas north of downtown Sacramento during the morning commute, plus a Stockton-to-San Jose ACE train.

Also part of the plan is the construction of a North Lathrop station on the eastern edge of the SHARP Depot site adjacent to Mantecas. If you hopped a train in Ceres, Modesto, Ripon, or downtown Manteca, you could switch trains to go into San Jose or to continue north into Sacramento. It is also where Valley Link, which is an effort to connect BART service that now ends in Dublin / Pleasanton to Stockton with stops along the way at River Islands, Tracy, and Livermore, will connect with ACE. It is possible that Valley Link will be completed by 2028.

From downtown Manteca, you will be able to take ACE to downtown San Jose or downtown Sacramento and beyond to the Natomas employment district starting in 2023. It is also planning to extend service to Merced later this decade so that it can connect with California High Speed Rail.

Initial service near the Manteca Transit Center in downtown will require over 1000 spaces, ACE estimates, based on projections of 1500 passengers boarding daily. In total, there are just over 100 spaces at the transit station. ACE service is not expected to start until the city has finalized the number of parking spaces it intends to provide.

Parking is already permitted along Moffat Boulevard, so some land could be used.

Another parcel, a two-story house at the southern end of the existing parking lot, is also available. In terms of the city's plans for the property, nothing has been revealed.

Also, it has not been made clear to the public if the city intends to make the parking lot continuous. A parking lot could, in all likelihood, be available along the Moffat between the Veterans Center and the transit station except for where the city has an arsenic treatment plant that is connected to multiple wells in the central district.

A passenger platform would likely be located near where the former recycling center is located or further south, as ACE has promised, so that stopped trains will not block Main Street when boarding and disembarking.

In order to expand the parking lot, the city has been granted $28 million through a grant program.

It is imperative that commuters pay attention to two things since they will leave their vehicles parked for a minimum of 10 hours:

The city must provide adequate parking spaces.

There is a need for some type of municipal parking restriction in the nearby residential area west of the Manteca High campus and maybe in downtown parking lots.

It may be necessary to enforce street time parking limits and / or issue residents stickers.

In order for either to work, the police department would need to enforce the time limits.

On-street parking along Moffat near parking lots must also be evaluated, or at least controlled, by the city.

Prior safety discussions at Manteca High raised concerns about how Moffat tends to encourage high speeds. The city is also not restricting truck parking along Moffat Avenue.

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