{"id":250226,"date":"2026-07-23T12:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250226\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:26:24","slug":"penn-avenue-in-wilkinsburg-shut-down-after-water-main-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250226\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Avenue in Wilkinsburg shut down after water main break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water main break shuts down Penn Avenue in Wilkinsburg, snarling bridge detour<\/p>\n<p>Penn Avenue is closed between Franklin and Swissvale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/0b5b6c33-d4fa-4990-9a62-810884694d0d\" aria-label=\"Ava Rash profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0b5b6c33-d4fa-4990-9a62-810884694d0d_1697057319.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ava Rash\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>WILKINSBURG, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A portion of Penn Avenue in WIlkinsburg is shut down due to a massive water main break. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Penn Avenue is closed between Franklin and Swissvale, which is causing significant backups, especially since this is part of the Commercial Street Bridge detour route. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The water is off but Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 Crews saw significant damage to both side of Penn Avenue. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">This is a developing story. Stick with Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 for the latest information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water main break shuts down Penn Avenue in Wilkinsburg, snarling bridge detour Penn Avenue is closed between Franklin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,106985,106988,20507,102507,40204,2807,4808,106986,28,73,75,74,31076,6654,38881,87390,10939,106078,2217,106987,868],"class_list":["post-250226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-bridge-detour","tag-broken-water-main","tag-commercial-street-bridge","tag-detour-route","tag-developing-story","tag-franklin","tag-penn-avenue","tag-penn-avenue-closure","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburghs-action-news-4","tag-road-closure","tag-significant-damage","tag-street-closure","tag-swissvale","tag-traffic-backups","tag-water-main-break","tag-water-shutoff","tag-wilkinsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250226","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=250226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}