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Byline: Julia Felton Jun. 5Pittsburgh is finally catching up on fixing its ailing bridges. More than two years after the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge exposed dire problems with [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Sep. 8Pittsburgh's Calera Street Bridge is set to be replaced, and the city's California Avenue Bridge is expected to see a major rehabilitation. Maria Montaño, a spokeswoman [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Jul. 19Overnight closures of the Andy Warhol Bridge have ended, Allegheny County officials said Tuesday. The closures, which began in late April, allowed for crews to install [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Jul. 7Repair work on the North Side's Swindell Bridge will close the span for nearly a month starting Monday, city officials said. The full closure is expected [...]

Byline: Jack Troy Jun. 29A scheduled closure to the New Kensington Bridge will happen a year sooner than expected. The six-week closure is tentatively scheduled for July 17, with July [...]

Byline: Julia Felton May 19A $230,000 maintenance project on Pittsburgh's Swinburne Bridge is scheduled to begin Monday, and officials said the work could result in short-term delays for motorists over [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi May 2More than 400 motorists a day will be impacted when a Fawn road is closed long term May 15. Thompson Road will be shut down between [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Apr. 22Pittsburgh officials on Friday announced that construction projects at the Swindell Bridge and 30th Street Bridge are slated to begin next week. The city's Department of [...]

Byline: Paul Guggenheimer Apr. 21Motorists who regularly use the outbound Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel have been given somewhat of a reprieve. Work scheduled for tonight has been canceled and [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci Feb. 11Long-term lane restrictions will begin Monday on the Highland Park Bridge in Sharpsburg, PennDOT officials said this weekend. Officials plan to restrict northbound traffic, weather permitting, [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Dec. 22Pittsburgh's new Fern Hollow Bridge opened to traffic in the East End early Thursday afternoon, less than a year after it collapsed. Officials had initially said [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Dec. 14Less than one year after collapsing, the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh could reopen before Christmas and reconnect a vital artery in the city's East End. [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Nov. 23Pittsburgh officials on Wednesday said they are closing the east sidewalk on the South Negley Avenue bridge in Shadyside. The bridge, which spans the East Busway [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Oct. 20President Joe Biden stopped in Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon to survey progress on the $25.3 million reconstruction of the Fern Hollow Bridge and tout his administration's [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Oct. 7A crane boom struck a pedestrian bridge in Pittsburgh on Friday, warping a metal beam of the bridge and causing closures of Bigelow Boulevard in both [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Oct. 7A crane boom struck a pedestrian bridge in Pittsburgh on Friday, warping a metal beam of the bridge and causing closures of Bigelow Boulevard in both [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Sep. 1Pittsburgh officials announced that Swindell Bridge in Pittsburgh's North Side was reopening to all traffic Thursday. The bridge was closed on July 1 because of debris [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Jun. 24Pittsburgh's Swindell Bridge is being milled and resurfaced in a project that began Friday, officials said. The 1,097-foot-long bridge, which stretches over the Parkway North on [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Feb. 3The bridge carrying traffic from Rosslyn Road to the inbound side of the Parkway West has reopened after a vehicle struck it on Wednesday afternoon. PennDOT [...]

Byline: Megan Guza Feb. 2Two decades' worth of love locks on Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente Bridge will not be love lost, but rather removed and donated for an art project when [...]

Jun. 18Laurel: To pedaling forward. There may be no more quintessential expression of the freedom of summer vacation than a kid on a bike. It's exercise. It's fun. It's the [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine May 21Murrysville officials would like to build on a 2018 study of the Logan's Ferry bridge intersection and begin evaluating permanent fixes for there and the Heather [...]

May 3In the fairy tale about goats trying to cross a bridge, a troll sat under the bridge, waiting to gobble up the goats as payment for their audacity. Troll [...]

Byline: Bobby Kerlik Nov. 04--Liberty Tunnel cleaning and maintenance will force the closure of a single lane in each direction overnight this week, starting Monday, PennDOT officials said. Single-lane traffic [...]

Byline: Margaret Harding Oct. 28--An inoperable heating machine slowed the drying process of road sealant on Interstate-79 and caused a 9-mile traffic back-up Tuesday morning, a PennDOT spokesman said. Workers [...]

Byline: Tom Fontaine Sept. 20--The Rev. Dan Whalen sighed Wednesday after learning how the $120 million Route 28 road project will snarl traffic in the Millvale area for the next [...]

June 23--Motorists reported lengthy traffic delays this afternoon on the inbound Parkway West as fans headed to the 4:05 p.m. Pirates game at PNC Park. They were being detoured through [...]

Byline: Mandy Hofmockel July 19--On the first full weekday following closure of a section of Route 65, drivers experienced delays of 10 to 15 minutes on Monday in their morning [...]

June 18--Part of Clifton Road in Bethel Park will be closed through July 15 so that crews can install a pedestrian bridge over the roadway in the area of Highfield [...]

May 16--Crews today will inspect a bridge that carries Route 65 over Jacks Run in Bellevue, PennDOT said. Lane closures will occur as needed in both directions between Kendall and [...]

May 02--Repair work on the bridge that carries Greentree Road over the Parkway West in Green Tree will begin tonight, PennDOT said. Traffic will be reduced to a single lane [...]

April 24--PennDOT crews will paint lines this week on the Parkway North, agency officials said. The work will occur from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Wednesday between the [...]