{"id":87095,"date":"2026-01-15T02:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87095\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:32:15","slug":"pittsburgh-prepares-for-coating-of-snow-overnight-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87095\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh prepares for coating of snow, overnight freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh is working to keep the roads safe ahead of expected snow and an overnight freeze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor said Wednesday night that the Department of Public Works would have 36 plows and salt trucks ready to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Those trucks began moving at 6 p.m. and will be in operation until 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The number will increase to 40 trucks starting at 10 p.m. and those will continue until at least 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">O\u2019Connor asks that residents use caution as crews work to clear the roads. <\/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 Pittsburgh is working to keep the roads safe ahead of expected snow and an overnight freeze.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15116,73,75,39058,74,43482,28854,43483,14831,43481,14834,43480,32415,43484],"class_list":["post-87095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-corey-oconnor","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-mayor-corey-oconnor","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-salt-trucks","tag-pittsburgh-snow","tag-pittsburgh-snow-plows","tag-plows","tag-salt-trucks-in-pittsburgh","tag-snow","tag-snow-crews-pittsburgh","tag-snow-in-pittsburgh","tag-snow-plows-in-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87095","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=87095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}