{"id":228840,"date":"2026-06-26T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228840\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:59:08","slug":"southwestern-pennsylvania-commission-approves-4-7b-transportation-infrastructure-plan-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228840\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission approves $4.7B transportation infrastructure plan \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission will invest billions in improving the region\u2019s transportation infrastructure over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The SPC voted unanimously this week to approve its 2027-2030 Transportation Improvement Program. The document, effective Oct. 1 of this year, outlines $4.7 billion in infrastructure project investments across the 10-county region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The 2027-2030 TIP is one step in a 25-year investment plan \u2014 the SmartMoves Long Range Transportation Plan \u2014 spearheaded by the SPC. Initiated in 2019 and updated in response to pandemic changes in 2023, the plan aims to create and connect Southwestern Pennsylvanians to opportunity through incremental investment in region-wide infrastructure projects. This new round of funding will provide $2 billion to highway and bridge projects, while another $2.7 billion will support public transit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/spc-2027-2030-transportation-investment.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/spc-2027-2030-transportation-investment.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. <\/a> <\/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 The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission will invest billions in improving the region\u2019s transportation infrastructure over the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[45224,28,30,29,21073,99105,36191,17003],"class_list":["post-228840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-infrastructure-projects","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-public-transit","tag-smartmoves-long-range-transportation-plan","tag-southwestern-pennsylvania-commission","tag-transportation-improvement-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228840","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=228840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}