{"id":256700,"date":"2026-07-31T21:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256700\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:40:13","slug":"wabash-tunnel-to-close-for-safety-repairs-for-two-weeks-prt-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256700\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash Tunnel to close for safety repairs for two weeks, PRT says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wabash Tunnel is going to be closed for two weeks for safety repairs, starting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Regional Transit said the repairs are expected to begin at 7 a.m. on Wednesday and are scheduled to be completed two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel, which connects Woodruff Street near Saw Mill Run Boulevard to West Carson Street near Station Square, is not currently a part of PRT&#8217;s regular transit network.<\/p>\n<p>PRT said that the repairs will continue to help make the tunnel, which is used as a detour route when necessary, a viable option for the agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People who use the tunnel as part of their daily commute will need to find alternate routes during the two-week closure.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wabash Tunnel is going to be closed for two weeks for safety repairs, starting on Wednesday. Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,2187],"class_list":["post-256700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-regional-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256700","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=256700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}