Interstate 279, Route 51 highlight this week’s roadwork

Smaller projects are featured in this week’s scheduled roadwork:

• Interstate 279 – A section of the highway in Ross will have lane and shoulder restrictions in the northbound direction beginning Monday and lasting until mid-October. The restrictions will occur from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays at the Jacks Run Road Bridge between Cemetery Lane and Bellevue Road. Pugliano Construction Co. will be doing bridge repair work. 
• Route 51 – The highway will be restricted to one lane in each direction from Tuesday through Thursday between Worthington Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard in Jefferson Hills. The left lane will be closed in each direction to allow crews to reconstruct the median as part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s construction of the Mon-Fayette Expressway between Jefferson Hills and Duquesne.
• Route 48 – Drilling operations will cause single-lane restrictions in Monroeville on weekdays beginning Monday and lasting until Oct. 6. The restrictions will occur from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. between Cambridge Square Drive and Route 130.
• Mayview Road – Work will begin at 7 a.m. Monday to replace the Mayview Road bridge over Chartiers Creek in Upper St. Clair, closing the road between Hastings Crescent and the Boyce Mayview Park Community and Recreational Center. In addition to replacing the bridge, Allison Park Contractors will do barrier work under a $2.1 million contract. The project should be finished by Oct. 9. Traffic will be detoured.
• Route 28 – This week’s work on a warning system for drivers going the wrong way on the highway will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday at the northbound and southbound off-ramps at Millvale and the northbound off-ramp at Etna. Crews will install conduit, signs and utility poles. The $4.1 million system will operate from Pittsburgh’s North Side to Harmar beginning early next year.
• McKnight Road – Crews will be removing deck material today through Friday in two areas as part of the $27 million improvement project between Venture Street on Pittsburgh’s North Side and Perrymont Road in McCandless. Work will occur from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in each direction on McKnight between Braunlich Drive and Nelson Run Road and on Babcock Boulevard between Cemetery Lane and Nelson Run Road. Flaggers will help motorists on Babcock.