{"id":268386,"date":"2026-08-19T20:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268386\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:46:14","slug":"pa-turnpike-to-build-new-pittsburgh-area-interchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268386\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Turnpike To Build New Pittsburgh-Area Interchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWestmoreland County is growing, and Route 981 is critical to that growth,\u201d said PennDOT Secretary and PA Turnpike Commission Chair Mike Carroll. \u201cThis new interchange builds on the more than $220 million we\u2019re already investing here, and will create an important connection for the region that paves the way for future opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the interchange will be built remains a mystery. Turnpike officials said the project is in early stages of development, and cost and schedule details will be released as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWestmoreland County is growing, and Route 981 is critical to that growth,\u201d said PennDOT Secretary and PA Turnpike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-268386","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\/268386","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=268386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}