{"id":254548,"date":"2026-07-29T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254548\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:06:09","slug":"following-early-opening-more-work-still-expected-on-parkway-east-and-commercial-street-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254548\/","title":{"rendered":"Following early opening, more work still expected on Parkway East and Commercial Street Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as the relief washed over western Pennsylvania when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/parkway-east-commercial-street-bridge-reopening\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Commercial Street Bridge<\/a>\u00a0replacement project was completed early, there is still plenty to be done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With new high-friction surfaces outside of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel, new pavement inside the tunnels, and the new bridge in Edgewood, there&#8217;s still plenty to come during the $100 million project near the new bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are by no means done,&#8221; said John Myler, PennDOT Senior Assistant Construction Manager. &#8220;This is a $100 million rehabilitation project.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That project extends from the brand-new bridge to the Churchill interchange, and there is still so much to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still have bridge rehabilitation with expansion dams, approach slabs, latex overlays, bridge painting, and then the median barrier replacements,&#8221; Myler said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Myler said that as that work continues, there will be lane restrictions, but nothing like what drivers experienced during the bridge replacement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will be limited to single-lane restrictions at night and on weekends,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The work will continue into next year, but the bridge itself and the approach are mostly done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In about a month, we&#8217;ll be back to do some work out there, and that will be nighttime or weekend restrictions in the area,&#8221; Myler said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The thing that drivers will be relieved to hear, however, is that most of the work that would&#8217;ve led to major inconveniences was done during the Parkway East closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for the now former detour routes, at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, the traffic signals were returned to the pre-detour timing, which is a relief to those who live along those routes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as the relief washed over western Pennsylvania when the Commercial Street Bridge\u00a0replacement project was completed early, there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1730,3431,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-254548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-parkway-east","tag-penndot","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254548","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=254548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}