PennDOT will close the inbound Liberty Tunnel to Downtown this week from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., beginning Tuesday and continuing through Thursday.<\/p>\n
Workers from Pittsburgh-based Mosites Construction Co. are replacing the roof of the tunnel\u2019s portal \u2014 or entrance \u2014 as part of an infrastructure project worth roughly $3.5 million, PennDOT spokeswoman Nicole Haney said in a release.<\/p>\n
Commuters can follow a posted detour by following Saw Mill Run Boulevard northbound and taking the left exit at I-376 West\/US 19 South, followed by Exit 69A toward US19 South\/Banksville Road. They can then take I-376 through the Fort Pitt Tunnel and across the Fort Pitt Bridge.<\/p>\n
The Liberty Tunnel passes under Mount Washington, connecting Saw Mill Run Boulevard with the Liberty Bridge across the Monongahela River.<\/p>\n
PennDOT expects construction in the tunnel to run, as needed, through the end of the year. Commuters can expect intermittent overnight closures and detours until then, although not in both directions simultaneously, Haney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PennDOT will close the inbound Liberty Tunnel to Downtown this week from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., beginning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-237774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237774","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=237774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}