PennDOT Announces Overnight Weekend Closures Of Parkway West, Fort Pitt Tunnel
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – If you're planning on driving into Pittsburgh this weekend, you may want to allow for some extra time to get around.
So have you been enjoying this non-typical November? So have the contractors rushing to finish the work on the Parkway West, and Friday and Saturday night will be no exception.
"Normally this would be the type of weekend we would have avoided," PennDOT spokesman Steve Cowans said. "However, we are in November, and we don't have too many days like this left. The project is coming to an end so we have to take advantage of every moment like this we have."
Which means despite Saturday morning's Veterans Day Parade and Pitt tailgating starting on the North Shore at 7:00 a.m., PennDOT is closing the inbound Parkway West from 9 p.m. Friday until 10 a.m. Saturday. That's three hours after the tailgating lots open and a half hour before the parade starts.
"This is a critical concrete pour tonight and Sunday morning on the bridges in Carnegie," Cowan said. "So we are allowing the contractor to continue until 10 a.m. However, if they finish early, which they are anticipating they will, we will reopen the Parkway West early."
In downtown Pittsburgh, the Veterans Day Parade will mean the closing of Liberty Avenue from The Point to Grant Street. With the Pitt-Notre Dame game sold out, fans are going to be looking for downtown parking spaces. Pittsburgh Operations Director Guy Costa says football fans can still get across the Golden Triangle to the North Shore.
"We will have police officers at the intersections to allow pedestrians to cross over to get on the other side of Liberty Avenue," Costa said. "No vehicles, but we will allow pedestrians to cross."
Costa suggests Pitt fans without parking passes on the North Shore park at Station Square and take the Clipper Fleet to the stadium, or the T. The most important thing is to plan ahead and know where you want to park and how to get around the closures.
The following detour will be in effect:
Inbound (eastbound)
· Motorists will exit I-376 at the I-79 south (Exit 64A) interchange towards Washington
· Follow I-79 south to the Carnegie (Exit 57) interchange off-ramp
· At the end of the off-ramp, turn left onto West Main Street
· West Main Street becomes Mansfield Boulevard
· Turn right onto Chestnut Street
· Turn left onto East Main Street
· East Main Street becomes Noblestown Road
· Turn right onto Mansfield Avenue
· Turn left onto Greentree Road
· Greentree Road becomes Wabash Street
· Turn right onto South Main Street
· Turn right onto southbound Route 837 (West Carson Street)
· Take the ramp to East I-376/North I-279 onto the Fort Pitt Bridge
· End detour
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