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CBS News
6 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Parkway East construction causing headaches and backups, how long will it last?
The mess on the Parkway East over the last couple of days has prompted the question: How long will this last? That question has many answers, but let's just deal with the here and now. Tuesday morning when PennDOT's contract first put the lane restriction into the Squirrel Hill Tunnel into place, it created a monster backup. "That is a very highly-traveled corridor," said John Myler, PennDOT's Senior Assistant Construction Engineer. "Traffic volumes are 100,000 vehicles per day, so I think that's to be expected." Myler said by contract, the contractor could do this for up to 35 days, but that doesn't mean a month-plus straight of single-lane restrictions through the outbound tunnel. "What we're definitely saying right now is for the remainder of this week and next week, we will have this in place," Myler said. To improve the flow at the merge point outside of the tunnel and stop the weaving, Myler explained they're going to look to close the Squirrel Hill ramp to the outbound, eastbound Parkway. Further out on the Parkway, the steel is in place for the outbound bridge over Old William Penn Highway. "By late July, we should be opening that structure up, switching traffic over onto it, and then continuing the second half of the bridge for the remainder of the year," he said. They're also going to be shifting around the lanes out there next week, but that's nothing more than a subtle change. Also, if you're coming to Pittsburgh or you're in Pittsburgh and worried about getting to the U.S. Open later this summer, worry not, they're putting all projects on hold that week. However, remember, this is only the beginning. The new bridge comes next summer, and that project won't conclude until summer 2027.
CBS News
21-03-2025
- Automotive
- CBS News
Major change coming to the Parkway East in Monroeville as PennDOT implements crossover
A major change is coming to the Parkway East in Monroeville, starting tonight. PennDOT has already been working in the area of I-376 near Garden City outside Monroeville but a new configuration is coming that's expected to be in place until Thanksgiving. With the work going on, that stretch of the Parkway is already down to two lanes in each direction and at 7 p.m. tonight, it's going down to one lane in each direction so that crews can divert the outbound traffic over to share the inbound lanes. John Myler, PennDOT's District 11 Senior Assistant Construction Manager says he expects the work shifting the traffic to be complete by Monday morning, if not earlier. To make the four lanes of traffic fit on a three lane bridge, the driving lanes of the highway will be narrowed to 11 feet wide. Myler says it's not significantly different, but will be noticeable if you're driving alongside trucks or there happen to be two trucks passing through that crossover at the same time. While in the crossover stretch of the highway, you'll be driving between concrete barriers with no shoulder as crews demolish and rebuild the outbound bridge over Old William Penn Highway. "And then once that's completed, we'll switch all traffic over onto the new structure, mid to late summer, and repeat that on the other side," Myler said. If all goes as planned, things will be wrapped up by Thanksgiving.
