Parkway North Lane Shifts Go Into Effect This Weekend

ROSS TOWNSHIP, PA - It might not trigger Parkway North pandamonium, but the new traffic pattern beginning this weekend for the start of the I-279 rehabilitation likely will prompt some confusion. Your friends at Patch are here to help.

Sometime on Saturday or Sunday, PennDOT isn’t certain yet, motorists traveling inbound on the parkway will do things dramatically different than they customarily do. The following changes will occur:

• Just north of the Camp Horne Road exit, the left-hand lane of inbound I-279 will be crossed over into the northbound (or outbound) lanes. This lane is the express lane. All traffic using this lane will not have access to the Camp Horne Road, the Bellevue/West View and the Perrysville Avenue interchanges.

• The right-hand lane of inbound I-279 will remain in place. That’s the local lane, so l access to the Camp Horne Road, Bellevue/West View, and Perrysville Avenue exits must be made from the local lane.

• At the Perrysville Avenue interchange, both inbound lanes will merge into the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes. No access from the Ross park and ride lot to the HOV lanes will be permitted.

• South of the McKnight Road interchange, near Venture Street, both southbound I-279 lanes will shift from the HOV lanes back into mainline I-279.

Additional restrictions include:

• The southbound ramp from Cemetery Lane at the Perrysville Avenue interchange to inbound I-279 will close to traffic through early September.

• The inbound McKnight Road HOV ramp will close to traffic. The ramp from inbound McKnight Road to inbound I-279 will remain open during the initial phase of work.

• The Venture Street off-ramp will be closed through early September. However, the Venture Street on-ramp to southbound I-279 will remain open.

• The HOV lanes south of the Venture Street area, including access to and from the Bedford Avenue, Anderson Street, and Stadium Drive ramps, will remain closed during this initial phase of work. No HOV access in the northbound direction will occur.

• Work on southbound I-279 south of Venture Street will require traffic to be restricted to a single-lane during certain weeknights and weekends. Additional schedule information will be provided weekly as the project progresses.

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