Weekend roadwork includes big changes in major projects. Here are the details:
- 62nd Street Bridge — The bridge will be closed to traffic traveling from Pittsburgh toward Etna from 9 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday. Crews will make concrete repairs, install the foundation for a new sign and repair other overhead signs. Traffic headed from Etna into the city won’t be disturbed this week, but inbound lanes of the bridge will be closed next weekend for similar work. Detours will be posted. It is all part of a $9.1 million improvement project on Route 8 from Baker Street in the city to Saxonburg Boulevard in Shaler.
- Interstate 279 – After a week of regular traffic, the patterns on I-279 and Interstate 579 will change this weekend while work continues on emergency repairs to bridge supports for the HOV lanes and the Veterans Bridge on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Crews will begin work Friday night and expect to finish by noon Sunday to shift outbound traffic on I-579 into the HOV lanes on the bridge and onto I-279. Two 11-foot lanes will carry traffic, which will be able to exit at McKnight Road or continue until the HOV lanes end at I-279 north of the Perrysville Road exit. Exits at Hazlett Street, Evergreen Road and Perrysville Road and the ramp to northbound Route 28 will be closed. Inbound traffic will not be able to use the HOV lanes.
- Route 51 – Crews will begin work at 8 p.m. Friday to change the traffic pattern on the highway in Pleasant Hills and Jefferson Hills and expect to have the new configuration in place by 7 a.m. Monday. The new pattern will limit traffic to one lane in each direction in the far right lanes between East Bruceton Street and Coal Valley Road through late October. Traffic will only be able to turn left at intersections with traffic signals. The work is part of a $29.9 million project to resurface the highway and replace nine traffic signals, among other improvements, between Peters Creek Road in Jefferson Hills to Stewart Avenue in Pittsburgh.
- Navy-Marine Corps Way – The road in North Versailles will have single-lane restrictions between Route 30 and East Pittsburgh McKeesport Boulevard starting at 6 p.m. Friday and continuing for the next 10 days. Crews will work from Friday through 6 a.m. Monday, then 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and then from 6 p.m. Friday through 6 a.m. Sept. 22. Westbound traffic from Route 30 to Navy-Marine Corps Way will be detoured intermittently during the $8.5 million project, which includes milling and paving plus other improvements.
- Route 8 – Occasional single-lane restrictions will occur on weekdays through next Thursday between Route 28 and the Butler County line between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays while crews replace raised pavement markings on the highway.
- Parkway East – A single-lane restriction will be in place for outbound motorists from 6 a.m. to noon Saturday near the Forbes Avenue/Oakland exit just past the Birmingham Bridge for bridge inspection work. The exit will remain open.
- Ferguson Road – The road in Hampton will have single-lane alternating traffic from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays between Wyland Avenue and Legendary Lane while Peoples Gas replaces a gas line. The work is expected to last until mid-October.
Ed covers transportation at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but he's currently on strike. Email him at eblazina@unionprogress.com.