Water leak to impact morning commute along portion of Rt. 28 in Allegheny County
PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR AT SEVEN STARTS NOW. THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US FOR THE NEWS ON COZI TV. I’M KRISTEN POWERS IN FOR MIKE CLARK. WE ARE STARTING WITH PITTSBURGH’S ACTION WEATHER. DEFINITELY A CHILLY ONE TODAY. AND NOW WE ARE TRACKING A MIXED BAG OF PRECIPITATION LATER THIS WEEK. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST MIKE HARVEY LEADS US OFF TONIGHT WITH YOUR CERTIFIED MOST ACCURATE FORECAST. AND MIKE, TO START, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FOR TONIGHT. IT’S GOING TO BE COLD OUT THERE. IT ALREADY IS COLD OUT THERE. IT’S GOING TO CHILL OFF AS WE GO OVERNIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING. AND THEN AS WE GET INTO WEDNESDAY OUR IMPACT DAY, THAT’S WHEN WE’LL HAVE SOME SNOW, RAIN AND THEN SOME SNOW AGAIN AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE DAY. RIGHT NOW IT’S ONLY 22 DEGREES OUTSIDE. WINDS NORTH NORTHEAST AT SEVEN. THAT TAKES YOUR WIND CHILL DOWN TO 13 DEGREES AT THIS HOUR. WE GO INTO TOMORROW. WE’RE GOING TO BE SEEING TEMPERATURES DOWN INTO THE TEENS FOR YOUR LOWS. WIND CHILLS WILL BE DOWN NEAR TEN DEGREES IN THE MORNING, AND WE’LL TOP OUT A LITTLE PAST THE FREEZING MARK RIGHT AROUND 3435 DEGREES. WE WILL HAVE CLOUDS TOMORROW, BUT MOST LOCATIONS WILL REMAIN DRY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW FLURRIES NORTH OF I-80, BUT EVERYBODY ELSE WILL BE DRY WITH THE CLOUDY SKIES. THAT’S TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY. DIFFERENT STORY. YOU CAN SEE THE SNOW AS WELL AS THE RAIN THAT WILL BE MOVING INTO THE AREA AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. SO TUESDAY YOUR HIGH TEMPERATURE 36 DEGREES. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH THOSE FLURRIES NORTH. WEDNESDAY AN IMPACT DAY. WE’LL START WITH SNOW THAT WILL TRANSITION TO RAIN AND THEN THAT WILL SWITCH OVER TO SOME SNOW LATER ON. ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. HIGH TEMPERATURE ON WEDNESDAY, 41 DEGREES JUST IN TONIGHT. ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF KEVIN KRAUS REMAINS IN THE HOSPITAL TONIGHT AFTER OFFICIALS WITH THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAY THAT HE WAS UNDER THE WEATHER AND WAS ADMITTED LATE LAST WEEK. THEY SAY HE IS IN STABLE CONDITION. FOR YOUR MONEY, TONIGHT, A PITTSBURGH CITY COUNCIL MEMBER IS PROPOSING A 30% PROPERTY TAX HIKE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A DECADE. SHE SAYS IT’S NEEDED IN ORDER TO ADD REVENUE AND KEEP CORE SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR RESIDENTS. COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER KALEA GUNDERSON HAS MORE FROM GREENFIELD. COUNCILPERSON BARB WARWICK TELLS ME THE CITY’S $30 MILLION BUDGET DEFICIT MEANS MORE REVENUE IS NEEDED, AND AFTER 11 YEARS WITHOUT AN INCREASE TO PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE, SHE SAYS IT’S UNFORTUNATELY TIME. THIS IS URGENT, RIGHT? WE HAVE TO GET THIS DONE BY THE END OF THE YEAR AND THAT DEADLINE IS APPROACHING FAST TO COME UP WITH THE REVENUE NEEDED TO FIX WHAT COUNCILPERSON BARB WARWICK SAYS IS A $31 MILLION BUDGET SHORTFALL. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT ANYONE WANTS TO DO, BUT I, I BELIEVE FIRMLY THAT THIS IS THE RESPONSIBLE THING TO DO. AS THE FISCAL STEWARDS OF THE CITY, WARWICK IS PROPOSING A 30% INCREASE IN THE REAL ESTATE TAX MILLAGE RATE FROM 8.08 MILS TO 10.48. THAT’S AROUND $20 MORE A MONTH PER $100,000 OF PROPERTY VALUE. I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOUNGER PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST BUYING HOMES ARE GOING TO FEEL. IT’S GOING TO HURT MORE PEOPLE, AND IN THE END, IT JUST MAKES THE CITY NEVER GROW. SO I AND THAT’S ME. BUT I’M SURE THEY HAVE A MILLION REASONS WHY THEY’RE GOING TO DO IT. SO IT’S JUST MY OPINION. I WOULD RATHER THEY WOULDN’T. WARWICK SAYS THIS WOULD GENERATE $41 MILLION COVERING A BUDGET DEFICIT AND LEAVING ROUGHLY $10 MILLION LEFT OVER TO ALLOCATE TO OTHER AREAS OF THE BUDGET. ONE EXAMPLE WOULD BE IMPROVING THE CITY’S FLEET OF EMERGENCY VEHICLES. IF THIS DOES NOT PASS, I DO NOT KNOW HOW WE WERE, HOW WE’RE GOING TO FIX OUR AGING FLEET. I DON’T KNOW HOW WE’RE GOING TO PAY OUR UTILITY BILLS, AND I DON’T KNOW HOW WE’RE GOING TO PAY OUR OVERTIME, CITY COMPTROLLER RACHEL HEISLER SAYING HER OFFICE WARNED CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR’S OFFICE OF THESE BUDGETARY CONCERNS MORE THAN TWO YEARS AGO, SHE SAID IN A STATEMENT, QUOTE, IN APRIL 2024, WE SAID THAT WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT BUDGETARY CHANGES, THE CITY WILL LIKELY BE OPERATING AT A NET DEFICIT BY 2025, AND THAT THE RESERVE FUND COULD BE DEPLETED BY 2028, IF NOT SOONER. THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, AND THAT’S EXACTLY THE POSITION WE FIND OURSELVES IN TODAY. AND WARWICK PLANS TO PRESENT THIS LEGISLATION AT TOMORROW MORNING’S CITY COUNCIL MEETING COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY IN PITTSBURGH’S GREENFIELD NEIGHBORHOOD. KALEA GUNDERSON PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. A SHORT TIME AGO, ALLEGHENY COUNTY POLICE RELEASED A MUGSHOT OF A FORMER TEACHER ACCUSED OF PAYING TWO BOYS TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL ACTIVITY. SEAN SPICER WAS A TEACHER AT THE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL DISTRICT THIS AFTERNOON. DETECTIVES ARE REACHING OUT TO THE PUBLIC AFTER GETTING INFORMATION THAT THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE TIP LINE. THAT NUMBER IS ONE 833. ALL TIPS. A FORMER 911 COORDINATOR IN SOMERSET COUNTY PLEADS GUILTY TO CHILD MOLESTATION CHARGES. WE FIRST TOLD YOU ABOUT THE CHARGES AGAINST BRADLEY LEVAN MORE THAN TWO YEARS AGO. PROSECUTORS SAY HE GROOMED FIVE CHILDREN WHO WERE BETWEEN THE AGES OF THREE AND SIX. LEVAN PLEADED GUILTY TODAY TO CALL CHARGES AGAINST HIM. AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE WORKING ON. WORK IS GETTING UNDERWAY ON A UNIQUE PROJECT. THIS IS IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY. CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN TO TRANSFORM THIS AREA OF LAND INTO A SELF-DRIVING VEHICLE. TEST TRACK. NOW, HERE’S A RENDERING OF WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN THE STATE OF THE ART FACILITY IS COMPLETED. WE ARE LEARNING IT WILL BE HOME TO ALL KINDS OF TESTING, BOTH PERSONAL AND COMMERCIAL. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4 REPORTER MARCIE CIPRIANI IS IN EAST HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP. TO GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THE PROJECT AND HOW IT CAN PUT OUR AREA IN THE FOREFRONT OF THIS EMERGING TECHNOLOGY. WHAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME IS ABOUT 100 ACRES OF LAND NOW BEING TRANSFORMED. YEARS AFTER IT WAS SLATED TO BECOME A TEST TRACK FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES. THE FIRST TRUCKS ARE CLEARING THE WAY FOR THAT VISION. THIS IS ONE OF A FEW TESTING GROUNDS NATIONWIDE. FROM DRONE FOUR, YOU CAN SEE THE SPACE WHERE THE TWO MILE CLOSED LOOP TRACK WILL SIT. 2026 YOU WILL SEE COMPANIES TESTING THEIR VEHICLES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES ON THE TEST TRACK. THIS IS HOW IT WILL LOOK WHEN IT’S COMPLETE. SITUATED AT RIDC WESTMORELAND, THE FORMER SONY PLANT, RIDC HAS PARTNERED WITH PENNDOT, THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE AND OTHERS TO PAY FOR AND BUILD THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TEST TRACK AS A WAY TO KEEP BUSINESSES IN THE AREA AND LURE OTHERS IN. THERE’S REALLY NOTHING IN PENNSYLVANIA OR THE NORTHEAST ON PROVING GROUNDS, SO ALL OF THESE COMPANIES ARE TRAVELING TO TEXAS, TO FLORIDA, TO ARIZONA, TO OHIO TO TEST. AND SO ALL OF OUR COMPANIES WE’VE CREATED HERE IN THE STRIP DISTRICT ARE LEAVING TO GO TEST OTHER PLACES. SO WE WANT TO KEEP THOSE COMPANIES AND ATTRACT MORE AND CONTINUE TO MAKE THIS THE ROBOTICS HUB FOR AUTOMATED VEHICLES. TIM WHITE, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, SAYS WHILE THE TEST TRACK IS THE DRAW, THERE WILL BE A SAFETY ELEMENT HERE TOO. PENN STATE WILL BE USED BY A MIX OF PRIVATE COMPANIES IN AUTOMATED VEHICLES, BUT ALSO FIRST RESPONDERS DOING TRAINING, WHICH IS CALLED TIM TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TRAINING. AND THIS IS FOR WHEN FIRST RESPONDERS ARE ON THE HIGHWAY AND THERE’S AN ACCIDENT, THE KIND OF TRAINING THAT DOES ON THERE, THAT IS PHASE ONE, WHICH WHITE SAYS WILL COST $30 MILLION. THE FIRST PHASE OF THIS PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETE BY THE END OF SUMMER NEXT YEAR. FUTURE PHASES WILL INCLUDE ADDING TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND WAYS TO SIMULATE COUNTRY ROADS AND CITY ENVIRONMENTS. COVERING WESTMORELAND COUNTY FROM EAST HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP, MARCIE CIPRIANI PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. IF YOU’RE IN THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, YOU MAY START SEEING WAYMO VEHICLES DRIVING AROUND THE COMPANY, ANNOUNCING A MAJOR EXPANSION LAST WEEK. FOR NOW, YOU WON’T BE SEEING THEM DRIVING BY THEMSELVES. THEY WILL BE DRIVEN TRADITIONALLY FOR THE TIME BEING. LATER ON, THEY PLAN TO MOVE TO SELF-DRIVING, BUT WITH A TECHNICIAN IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT. THEN EVENTUALLY THEY WILL RUN THEMSELVES. WAYMO NEEDS PERMISSION FROM PENNDOT. IN A FEW MONTHS, THEY COULD RUN AUTONOMOUSLY.
Water leak to impact morning commute along portion of Rt. 28 in Allegheny County
Updated: 9:49 PM EST Dec 8, 2025
Traffic is likely to be impacted on Tuesday morning following a water leak along a portion of Route 28 in Allegheny County. VIDEO: Top news stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4Pittsburgh Water told Action News 4 that at 3 p.m. Monday, officials were alerted to a water leak along Route 28 between the 40th Street Bridge and the 31st Street Bridge.Officials with the company said the leak has been isolated and that crews are working to fix the issue. As a result, one lane in the inbound direction is expected to remain closed until repairs are complete. We’re told traffic will likely be impacted for the morning commute on Tuesday. It is unclear what led to the leak. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 will continue to provide updates as they are made available.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. —
Traffic is likely to be impacted on Tuesday morning following a water leak along a portion of Route 28 in Allegheny County.
VIDEO: Top news stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4
Pittsburgh Water told Action News 4 that at 3 p.m. Monday, officials were alerted to a water leak along Route 28 between the 40th Street Bridge and the 31st Street Bridge.
Officials with the company said the leak has been isolated and that crews are working to fix the issue. As a result, one lane in the inbound direction is expected to remain closed until repairs are complete.
We’re told traffic will likely be impacted for the morning commute on Tuesday.
It is unclear what led to the leak.
Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 will continue to provide updates as they are made available.
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