{"id":95347,"date":"2026-01-24T05:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95347\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:59:07","slug":"i-279-i-579-hov-lanes-to-close-for-weekend-snowstorm-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95347\/","title":{"rendered":"I-279, I-579 HOV lanes to close for weekend snowstorm \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The I-279 and I-579 High Occupancy Vehicle lanes in Pittsburgh and Ross Township will be closed due to the anticipated weekend snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The HOV lanes will close around 11 a.m. Saturday and stay closed throughout the storm\u2019s duration, PennDOT says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Crews will monitor weather conditions and determine when the HOV lanes are safe to reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/vehicle-restrictions-set-all-pennsylvania-interstates-pa-turnpike-due-winter-storm\/GFBJGP2KWBHOHKUBZUK6WQMCQU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/vehicle-restrictions-set-all-pennsylvania-interstates-pa-turnpike-due-winter-storm\/GFBJGP2KWBHOHKUBZUK6WQMCQU\/\">Vehicle and speed restrictions<\/a> have also been set on all Pennsylvania interstates, as well as the PA Turnpike and its extensions, due to the storm. <\/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 I-279 and I-579 High Occupancy Vehicle lanes in Pittsburgh and Ross Township will be closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46907,46903,46904,46905,46900,46901,46906,46908,73,75,46899,74,46902,28288,46909,46477],"class_list":["post-95347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-hov-lane-closure","tag-hov-lanes-closed","tag-hov-lanes-open","tag-hov-lanes-snow","tag-i-279-hov-lanes","tag-i-579-hov-lanes","tag-penndot-hov-lanes","tag-penndot-snow","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-hov-lanes","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-ross-township-hov-lanes","tag-snow-removal","tag-weekend-snow","tag-weekend-snow-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95347","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=95347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}