{"id":253971,"date":"2026-07-28T19:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253971\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:23:24","slug":"after-parkway-closure-whats-the-next-big-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253971\/","title":{"rendered":"After Parkway closure, what&#8217;s the next big road project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the major part of the Parkway East and Commercial Street Bridge project completed, what is the next big project coming to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT says improvements to The Bathtub section, on I-376 westbound, next to the Monongahela River, is next.<\/p>\n<p>District 11 Executive Jason Zang tells the Big K Morning Show they&#8217;ll need to add five feet to the flood wall height.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s easier said than done, we have to anchor that down, we have to drive pin piles, there\u2019s a whole aspect to that,\u201d said Zang. \u201cThere\u2019s also new gates that are going in to control the water flow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zang adds there is a closure planned for that part of the Parkway next year in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The exact work and closure dates will be shared in coming months. <\/p>\n<p>Other big projects include a full rehabilitation of the West End Bridge, which is under design right now and another phase to paint the McKees Rocks Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Get more information on the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/penndot\/projects-near-you\/district-11-projects\/i-376-bathtub-floodwall-reconstruction-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the major part of the Parkway East and Commercial Street Bridge project completed, what is the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[53,14341,3431,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-253971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-construction","tag-parkway","tag-penndot","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253971","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=253971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}