North Hills Motorists: Plenty Of Traffic Woes Ahead This Year

ROSS TOWNSHIP, PA - Prepare for traffic tie-ups and detours as the roadway construction season is about to begin and will have a profound effect again on most North Hills motorists. Here’s what PennDOT says you should expect:

• I-279 Parkway North

Preparatory work, including the closure of the HOV lanes, already has begun for the next phase of this $88 million project. Work focused on southbound traffic last year but this year will be in the northbound lanes.
Motorist should anticipate ramp closures, mainline I-279 lane restrictions, a traffic shift into the HOV lanes, and a single-lane of traffic crossed over into the southbound lanes. Safety improvement work, including the lengthening of the Madison Avenue, Veterans Bridge, and Perrysville Avenue on-ramps to northbound I-279, will occur, as will concrete work on 30 bridges and maintenance on 49 overhead sign structures. The McKnight Road interchange will have an anti-icing system installed.
The project won’t be completed until 2019.

• Route 19 Perry Highway, Marshall

A $9.48 million project between the Route 19 intersections with Shenot Road/Northgate Drive and Freeport Road will include milling, paving, and other repairs. Resurfacing work requiring overnight and off-peak daylight restrictions is anticipated to begin in early May and the overall project should be complete in August 2018.

• McKnight Road, McCandless

Work on this $7.3 million project is anticipated to resume in late March and includes signal improvements, ADA curb cut ramp installation, sign updates, guiderail improvements, and concrete curb gutter repairs. Single-lane restrictions will occur during off-peak daylight hours through August to allow the work to occur. Overnight lane restrictions will occur as needed.

• Mt. Nebo Road, Ohio Township

This $7.6 million project between I-79 and Arndt Road will include roadway widening, turning lane installation, milling and resurfacing and other improvements. Single-lane restrictions will occur during the remainder of this construction project. The overall project will conclude in late 2019.

• Route 65 Ohio River Boulevard Bridge over Spruce Street, Ben Avon

Long-term single-lane restrictions on the Route 65 bridge over Spruce Street in Ben Avon Borough beginning in late 2018. The two-year, $4.5 million project involves preservation work on the structurally deficient bridge.

These roads will be resurfaced:

• Ross: Siebert Road from Babcock Boulevard to Thompson Run Road.

• Marshall, Pine: Warrendale-Bayne Road/Graham Road from Perry Highway (Route 19) in Marshall to Pearce Mill Road in Pine.

• McCandless, Hampton: Wildwood Road from Babcock Boulevard in McCandless to William Flynn Highway (Route 8) in Hampton.

• Franklin Park, McCandless: Pine Creek Road from Brandt School Road in Franklin Park to Perry Highway (Route 19) in McCandless.

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