{"id":232641,"date":"2026-07-01T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232641\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:13:45","slug":"part-of-penn-hills-road-to-close-for-railroad-bridge-work-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232641\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of Penn Hills road to close for railroad bridge work \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PENN HILLS, Pa. \u2014 The Allegheny County Department of Public Works announced that part of Universal Road near Hershey Road in Penn Hills will close starting at 9 a.m. on July 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The closure is required for work on Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Bridge No. 1, which carries Universal Road over Union Railroad tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Traffic will be detoured using Saltsburg Road and Stotler Road. Homes and businesses near the closure area will remain accessible at all times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The project, which is expected to end in October, includes repairs to the bridge\u2019s deck, approach, sidewalk and barrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It also involves the cleaning and painting of structural steel and downspout cleaning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pugliano Construction of Plum is the primary contractor for the $514,000 project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Bridge No. 1 is used by an average of 9,286 vehicles daily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The bridge has a condition rating of three, on a zero-to-nine scale, which is considered poor condition. This rating is based on National Bridge Inspection Standards established by the Federal Highway Administration.<\/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":"PENN HILLS, Pa. \u2014 The Allegheny County Department of Public Works announced that part of Universal Road near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16389,78381,9317,4029,4030,7015,9375,577,7017,53,1879,11287,4630,100546,5073,100547,4127,4036,1820,7026,23200,16888,14700,5422,708,12827,73,75,74,14133,6014,99846,7363,5378,4553,55263,5691,3571,9391,7365,4756,1704,2155,4491,7368,7369,4051,7212],"class_list":["post-232641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-alert","tag-barricade","tag-barrier","tag-black","tag-blue","tag-bright","tag-caution","tag-closed","tag-color","tag-construction","tag-danger","tag-dead","tag-detour","tag-divert","tag-end","tag-hassle","tag-highway","tag-horizontal","tag-job","tag-light","tag-metal","tag-nobody","tag-notice","tag-orange","tag-outdoors","tag-pattern","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-repair","tag-road","tag-roadblock","tag-safety","tag-sign","tag-signage","tag-signal","tag-site","tag-sky","tag-stop","tag-street","tag-symbol","tag-traffic","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-urban","tag-warning","tag-white","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232641","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=232641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}