{"id":286119,"date":"2026-09-15T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286119\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:14:08","slug":"prt-to-close-stretch-of-downtown-light-rail-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286119\/","title":{"rendered":"PRT to close stretch of Downtown light rail this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Regional Transit will close its Downtown light rail lines between the First Avenue and Steel Plaza stations this weekend for maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>The affected stretch of track will close following the end of service on Friday and reopen at the usual start of service on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Shuttle buses will connect First Avenue and Steel Plaza in the interim, and a rail shuttle will connect Steel Plaza and Allegheny Station.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are performing concrete work outside of Penn Tunnel, a backup route the light rail lines use during service detours and special events, PRT spokesman Adam Brandolph said. The Downtown stations serve each of PRT\u2019s three light rail lines: Red, Blue and Silver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work will help ensure the route remains reliable when needed,\u201d Brandolph said.<\/p>\n<p>PRT recommends riders prepare for their trips to take 20 minutes longer than usual. Agency employees will be stationed at Steel Plaza to help riders with transfers.<\/p>\n<p>PRT has tentatively scheduled another closure related to the Penn Tunnel work for the weekend of Oct. 23-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Regional Transit will close its Downtown light rail lines between the First Avenue and Steel Plaza stations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-286119","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\/286119","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=286119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}