Route 28 Traffic Patterns to Change Thursday Night

Traffic on southbound Route 28 in Millvale will be required to use the express lane at the 40th Street Bridge Thursday night through Friday morning, PennDOT District 11 announced.

Crews will be paving a temporary transition. Work will occur from 8 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. on Friday. Access to the 40th Street Bridge will be closed.

Here are the detour directions:

o   Continue inbound on Route 28

o   Take exit to East Ohio Street

o   Make left onto Chestnut Street and cross the 16th Street Bridge

o   Left onto Penn Avenue

o   Follow Penn Avenue to Butler Street

o   Continue on Butler Street through Lawrenceville

o   Access intersection with the 40th Street Bridge     

 At 5 a.m. Friday, access to the 40th Street Bridge from southbound Route 28 will be reopened with traffic shifted to the left.

Traffic on the ramp from Millvale to southbound Route 28 will be required to stop before merging with traffic from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday.

At 2 p.m. on Friday, traffic on southbound Route 28 will be shifted back to the right onto a portion of newly constructed roadway. This will allow crews to begin reconstructing the center lane on Route 28.   

The work is part of a $23.5 million improvement project on Route 28 for which Trumbull Corp. of Pittsburgh is the prime contractor.  

To view a PowerPoint presentation of the overall work on the Route 28 East Ohio Street improvement project including maps, timeline and renderings of the completed project, go to www.dot.state.pa.us, click the picture under “PennDOT Near You” then the “11” on the map. This will take web users to the District 11 homepage. A link to the presentation is provided on the right.    

To sign up for PennDOT’s Route 28 email notification list for traffic and construction advisories, send email addresses to jstruzzi@state.pa.us and write “Subscribe – Route 28” in the subject line.