{"id":226129,"date":"2026-06-23T20:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:19:20","slug":"pittsburgh-traffic-alert-part-of-busy-road-to-close-for-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226129\/","title":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH TRAFFIC ALERT: Part of busy road to close for 3 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Part of a busy Pittsburgh road will close for three days this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh Regional Transit will close the southbound lanes of Washington Place between Centre and Fifth avenues in Uptown from Wednesday until 5 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PRT says the closure is needed so crews can repair the roadway for the University Line project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Bus routes on 81-Oak Hill, 82-Lincoln and 83-Bedford Hill will be detoured during the work and won\u2019t serve the bus stops at Washington Place and Fifth Avenue or Diamond Street at Boyd Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Inbound buses will stay on Centre Avenue, turn left at Sixth Avenue and serve a temporary stop at Sixth Avenue at Diamond Street. Buses will then turn right on Forbes Avenue, where regular service will resume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The outbound routes will not be detoured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Drivers will have access to the Marriott City Center hotel and parking garage, PRT says.<\/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 Part of a busy Pittsburgh road will close for three days this week. Pittsburgh Regional Transit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3727,98142,73,75,74,2187,48719,14571,70130,4628,56434,98143,98144,98145],"class_list":["post-226129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-closure","tag-pittaburgh-road","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-regional-transit","tag-pittsburgh-road-closure","tag-pittsburgh-traffic","tag-pittsburgh-university-line","tag-prt","tag-university-line","tag-university-line-project","tag-washington-place","tag-washington-place-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226129","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=226129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}