{"id":238606,"date":"2026-07-08T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238606\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:15:07","slug":"part-of-flaugherty-run-road-damaged-by-recent-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238606\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of Flaugherty Run Road damaged by recent heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flaugherty Run Road in Moon Township is temporarily closed to traffic in both directions between Brodhead Road and Route 51.<\/p>\n<p>The reason behind the closure is heat damage from the recent weather.<\/p>\n<p>Several sections of the road have buckled and are unsafe for vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>Traffic is being detoured. <\/p>\n<p>PennDOT indicated the repairs could take through August to complete.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT has posted the following detours:<\/p>\n<p>Northbound Route 51 to Flaugherty Run Road<\/p>\n<p>  Continue northbound on Route 51 past Flaugherty Run Road Turn left onto westbound Route 151 (Laurel Road) Turn left onto Brodhead Road End detour  <\/p>\n<p>Southbound Route 51 to Flaugherty Run Road<\/p>\n<p>  Continue southbound on Route 51 past Flaugherty Run Road Turn right onto University Boulevard Turn right onto Business Loop 376 Take the east 376 toward Flaugherty Run Road\/Airport exit Turn right onto Flaugherty Run Road End detour  <\/p>\n<p>Flaugherty Run Road to Route 51<\/p>\n<p>  From Flaugherty Run Road take Brodhead Road northbound Turn right onto Route 151 (Laurel Road)  Continue to Route 51 End detour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flaugherty Run Road in Moon Township is temporarily closed to traffic in both directions between Brodhead Road and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102638,14854,3431,73,75,74,38999],"class_list":["post-238606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-flaugherty-run-road","tag-moon-township","tag-penndot","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-road-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238606","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=238606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}