{"id":220952,"date":"2026-06-17T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220952\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:22:15","slug":"overnight-i-279-closure-canceled-over-equipment-issues-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220952\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight I-279 closure canceled over equipment issues \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa.  \u2014 A planned overnight closure of a major Pittsburgh-area highway was canceled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Allegheny County Department of Public Works says the full closure of I-279 southbound and the I-279\/I-579 HOV lanes was canceled for Monday night because of equipment issues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Closures of the I-279 southbound between the Camp Horne Road exit ramp (Exit 8) and the I-279 South entrance ramp from McKnight Road, as well as the I-279\/I-579 HOV lanes, are still on for the following days and times: <\/p>\n<p>From 9 pm Wednesday, June 17 through 5 am Thursday, June 18From 9 pm Thursday, June 18 through 5 am Friday, June 19From 9 pm Friday, June 19 through 5 am Saturday, June 20<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials say the closures are necessary for crews to demolish Jacks Run Bridge No. 3, which carries Jacks Run Road over I-279. <\/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":"ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 A planned overnight closure of a major Pittsburgh-area highway was canceled. The Allegheny County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[96216,96219,96217,96218,32125,14344,3184,96220,35652,42502,57907,32126,73,75,74,3172],"class_list":["post-220952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-279-closure","tag-279-overnight-closure","tag-279-southbound-closure","tag-579-closure","tag-camp-horne-road","tag-hov","tag-i-279","tag-jacks-run-bridge-no-3","tag-jacks-run-road","tag-mcknight-road","tag-overnight-closure","tag-parkway-north","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-ross-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220952","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=220952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}