{"id":11372,"date":"2025-10-22T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11372\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:06:06","slug":"crash-prone-upper-hill-roadway-to-get-speed-humps-safety-upgrades-officials-say-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11372\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash-prone Upper Hill roadway to get speed humps, safety upgrades, officials say \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 New traffic calming measures will be installed on a Pittsburgh roadway to reduce speed and increase safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Construction was tentatively scheduled to begin Wednesday, Oct. 22, on Bryn Mawr Road between Milwaukee Street and Iowa Street in the Upper Hill neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Crews will install three speed humps and one speed table, as well as upgrade crosswalks and intersection safety features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials say Bryn Mawr Road\u2019s crash history prompted the project, with six crashes, including one death, happening on the road between 2020 and 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cBased on the data, we knew that we needed to act,\u201d said Mayor Ed Gainey. \u201cToo many people have gotten hurt on this road and I am proud to support the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure in their traffic calming efforts.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Construction will last two days, weather permitting, with work scheduled to occur between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Flaggers will direct traffic through the area to allow alternating traffic. Temporary \u201cno parking\u201d signs will be posted throughout the work zone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials say 65% of vehicles driving on Bryn Mawr Road went over the posted speed limit of 25 mph, with an 85th percentile speed of 33 mph. <\/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\">\u00a92025 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 New traffic calming measures will be installed on a Pittsburgh roadway to reduce speed and increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8965,8966,347,351,8972,8968,8967,8969,1020,73,75,74,6014,7363,8574,8971,7365,8970,8964],"class_list":["post-11372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bryn-mawr-road","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-intersection","tag-iowa-street","tag-milwaukee-street","tag-neighborhood","tag-pedestrian","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-road","tag-safety","tag-speed","tag-speed-hump","tag-street","tag-traffic-calm","tag-upper-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372","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=11372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}