{"id":106378,"date":"2026-02-05T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106378\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:10:06","slug":"hov-lanes-to-close-in-pittsburgh-ahead-of-winter-storm-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106378\/","title":{"rendered":"HOV lanes to close in Pittsburgh ahead of winter storm \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 PennDOT is closing the I-279 and I-579 High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes in Pittsburgh and Ross Township ahead of a winter storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The HOV lanes are set to close at 11 p.m. Thursday due to anticipated winter weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PennDOT crews will monitor the roads and decide when the HOV lanes can safely reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In the meantime, PennDOT advises drivers to avoid or delay unnecessary travel and be cautious while traveling in winter weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 PennDOT is closing the I-279 and I-579 High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes in Pittsburgh and Ross Township&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46903,46904,46900,46901,73,75,46899,74,46902],"class_list":["post-106378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-hov-lanes-closed","tag-hov-lanes-open","tag-i-279-hov-lanes","tag-i-579-hov-lanes","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-hov-lanes","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-ross-township-hov-lanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}