{"id":253476,"date":"2026-07-28T04:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253476\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:07:40","slug":"the-commercial-street-bridge-on-the-parkway-east-reopens-monday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253476\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commercial Street Bridge on the Parkway East Reopens Monday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally set to wrap up Aug. 3, the massive project has been completed earlier than expected. <\/p>\n

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RENDERING COURTESY OF PENNDOT<\/p>\n

Say good riddance to the long commutes and nightmare traffic caused by the Commercial Street Bridge Project, because the Parkway East is set to reopen Monday evening with a brand new bridge in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When a PennDOT spokesperson last spoke with Pittsburgh Magazine<\/a>, she hinted the Parkway East may open earlier than its expected completion date.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project team has been working 24\/7 and are currently tracking ahead of schedule at this time,\u201d Nicole Haney, press officer for PennDOT, said on July 22. \u201cThough a date has not been determined, we anticipate I-376 reopening ahead of the previously targeted date of Aug. 3.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Sunday, PennDOT and the governor\u2019s office confirmed the heavily trafficked bridge would open ahead of schedule on July 27. But, how were they able to get such a massive project done so quickly?<\/p>\n

The project utilized an \u201caccelerated bridge construction technique\u201d to laterally slide the new 22-million-pound bridge 102 feet onto the existing alignment of I-376. PennDOT secretary Mike Carroll also noted construction crews were working around the clock; contractors also had financial incentive to complete the project ahead of time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have completed this project and opened the Parkway in less than three weeks,\u201d Carroll says. \u201cAgain: A stunning achievement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more information, including a livestream of the project being completed, visit here<\/a>. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally set to wrap up Aug. 3, the massive project has been completed earlier than expected. RENDERING COURTESY…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-253476","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\/253476","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=253476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}