{"id":149703,"date":"2026-03-27T03:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:02:06","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-east-busway-reopens-following-active-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149703\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway reopens following active landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway has reopened nearly a week after it was closed because of a landslide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh Regional Transit said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/crews-respond-landslide-near-pittsburghs-martin-luther-king-jr-east-busway-detour-place\/MXURODDDUJCHLFQQMLNPPCLZ3Y\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/crews-respond-landslide-near-pittsburghs-martin-luther-king-jr-east-busway-detour-place\/MXURODDDUJCHLFQQMLNPPCLZ3Y\/\">the busway was closed on Friday<\/a> because of a nearby landslide and debris that was near the roadway. PRT said it had reopened Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The busway was closed between 26th Street in the Strip District and the access point on Grant Street in Downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A third-party consultant was brought in and determined that the probability of boulders or debris going onto the busway is minimal in the event of a future landslide. That consultant did not rule out the possibility of another landslide happening, though.<\/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 Pittsburgh\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway has reopened nearly a week after it was closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12421,62963,40726,73,68369,75,74,2187,4628,7073],"class_list":["post-149703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-east-busway","tag-east-busway-pittsburgh","tag-landslide","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-east-busway","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-regional-transit","tag-prt","tag-prt-buses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149703","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=149703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}