{"id":308094,"date":"2026-10-16T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308094\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:36:11","slug":"ramp-carrying-traffic-from-i-579-to-outbound-boulevard-of-the-allies-to-close-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308094\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramp carrying traffic from I-579 to outbound Boulevard of the Allies to close Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The ramp carrying traffic from southbound I-579 to the outbound Boulevard of the Allies in Pittsburgh will close this Sunday for bridge inspection activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that the closure is scheduled to take place from 6 a.m. to noon, weather permitting. Crews will inspect the ramp that carries traffic to Route 885 during the six-hour window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Traffic attempting to travel from southbound I-579 to southbound Boulevard of the Allies will be detoured while work is underway in Allegheny County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Posted detours:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Southbound I-579 to southbound Boulevard of the Allies<\/p>\n<p>From southbound I-579, continue past the closed ramp toward Routes 19\/51\/Liberty BridgeContinue through the Liberty TunnelTurn right onto the ramp to north truck 19\/north 51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard)Follow north Route 19\/51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard) toward West End Bridge\/DowntownTake the right-hand off-ramp to Route 51\/Route 837 toward McKees Rocks\/West EndContinue on southbound Route 837 (West Carson Street)Take the ramp to East I-376\/North I-279 onto the Fort Pitt BridgeTake Boulevard of the Allies\/Liberty Avenue\/PPG Arena (Exit 70A) exitBear right for Boulevard of the AlliesEnd detour<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The ramp carrying traffic from southbound I-579 to the outbound Boulevard of the Allies in Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28541,9375,53,1879,297,23200,7211,14700,5422,73,75,74,4047,6014,31014,7363,5378,4553,62905,9391,7365,4756,1704,7369,4051,7212],"class_list":["post-308094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ahead","tag-caution","tag-construction","tag-danger","tag-information","tag-metal","tag-no","tag-notice","tag-orange","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-red","tag-road","tag-road-sign","tag-safety","tag-sign","tag-signage","tag-slow","tag-stop","tag-street","tag-symbol","tag-traffic","tag-warning","tag-white","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308094","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=308094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}