Roadwork resumes after holiday weekend

With the last summer holiday weekend behind us, road crews will return in force this week. Here’s where work is scheduled:

• Washington Pike – Substantial lane restrictions will continue in Collier between the Interstate 79 interchange and Mayer Street. Traffic will be reduced to a single lane in each direction from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily through late September. The restrictions will allow crews to install signs, relocate utilities and make side road adjustments as part of a $5.6 million project to widen the Vanadium Road interchange with Washington Pike and change the entrance to Eat’n Park and the former Peter’s Place.
• Parkway East 1 – Work on a retaining wall just outside the outbound Squirrel Hill Tunnel will continue with the right-hand lane and the shoulder closed between the tunnel and the Edgewood-Swissvale interchange. The work, which also will close the Beechwood Boulevard ramp to the outbound Parkway East, will take place from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tuesday through Friday. The wall is part of the $95 million replacement of the Commercial Street Bridge located just outside the outbound tunnel.
• Parkway East 2 – Beam repair work near the inbound Stanwix Street exit will cause a single-lane restriction from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights this week.
• Parkway West – The inbound ramp from the highway to Interstate 79 will be closed weeknights for the next three weeks in Robinson and Collier. The schedule calls for the ramp to be closed from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. Friday and Saturday this week. Sept. 8-14, closures will be from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. Friday and Saturday. From Sept. 15-17, the ramp will be closed from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. Detours will be posted. The closures will allow milling and paving on the ramp. The work is part of the $12.6 million improvement project between Ridge Road and I-79.
• Interstate 79 – Intermittent shoulder restrictions will continue from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday this week in Franklin Park and Marshall as part of the project to improve the Wexford interchange. Work will occur in both directions of I-79 from about 1.5 miles north of the split with Interstate 279 to Mingo Road; at the on- and off-ramps at the Route 910-Wexford exit; and on Route 910 between Nicholson Road Drive and Brandt School Road-VIP Drive to widen the shoulder and place temporary barriers. The $45.6 million project will redesign the interchange.
• Route 28 – Work on the warning system to alert drivers they are going the wrong way will be done from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday on the northbound offramps to Etna, Route 8 south, the Highland Park Bridge and Delafield Avenue. Crews are installing conduit and signs for the $4.8 million project that should open next spring.