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<\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\nWhile drivers have been happily moving across the new Commercial Street Bridge for more than a week, Commercial Street is still closed. <\/p>\n
However, that\u2019s expected to change on Monday. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, that street is more important than the bridge,\u201d Tanille Maddox, who uses Commercial Street often, said. \u201cI know a lot of people are happy about the bridge, but I\u2019m much happier about things opening up over here.\u201d <\/p>\n
Maddox usually takes Commercial Street to visit her family in Swisshelm Park. For more than three weeks, it\u2019s been more difficult getting there. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes me about 10 minutes to get here,\u201d she said. \u201cWhenever everything\u2019s closed and messed up, it takes me a good 25 minutes to get here.\u201d <\/p>\n
Amy Lampenfeld lives along Commercial Street and is tired of seeing cut-through traffic getting turned away. <\/p>\n
\u201cTraffic was unbelievable,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was extremely inconvenient.\u201d <\/p>\n
After 35 days, Commercial Street will reopen. PennDOT closed the street below the bridge on Monday, July 29 for the initial test slide of the bridge. The Parkway reopened 17 days after closing. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it would go a lot longer than it did,\u201d Lampenfeld said. \u201cNow, I\u2019m just really happy that they got it done quickly.\u201d <\/p>\n
While the reopening may bring more cut-through traffic back to the neighborhood, residents are glad to have it back. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad it\u2019s getting back,\u201d Maddox said. \u201cIt was a lot of commotion, a lot of cars, and a lot going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monday will be the final step in getting everything around Commercial Street back to normal. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad about that,\u201d Maddox said. \u201cI think it\u2019ll be a lot better, calmer, and we\u2019ll be able to get home a bit quicker.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super happy about it,\u201d Lampenfeld said. \u201cI can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n
PennDOT hasn\u2019t released an exact time for when Commercial Street will reopen Monday. It\u2019s expected to be in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
The full project won’t officially be completed until next summer. Crews still have to move Commercial Street and the Nine Mile Trail back to the original position. They will also restore the trails and landscaping. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commercial Street to reopen Monday three weeks after Parkway bridge closure PITTSBURGH \u2014 While drivers have been happily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-258211","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\/258211","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=258211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}