Road, bridge projects begin or advance to new phases
Several major road projects in the Pittsburgh area will begin or move into new phases beginning Monday.
In McKeesport, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation expects to begin a $15.4 million project to rehabilitate the Jerome Street Bridge at 8 a.m. Monday. Contractor Joseph B. Fay Co. will install a new concrete deck, sidewalk and expansion dams; repair barriers, structural steel and substructural concrete; replace bearings; and paint the structure.
Traffic will be reduced to one 10foot lane in each direction through March between Romine Avenue and Gibson Way on the bridge across the Youghiogheny River. The sidewalk on the north side of the bridge will be closed to pedestrians.
The entire project will last until November 2022, but other work shouldn’t impede traffic.
PennDOT also will begin a project Monday on Route 8 in Hampton and Richland that will include base repair work and milling and paving between Wildwood Road and Route 910.
During base repair work, traffic in both directions will be moved to a single lane on one side of the road from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. For milling and paving, traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction, but there will be no crossover.
Derry Construction Co. Inc. is expected to finish the $4.3 million job by mid-September.
In Penn Hills, Allegheny County will begin the first of two closures to construct support walls in two locations on Nadine Road.
Northeast Paving is expected to start work at 7 a.m. Monday on a support wall on Nadine near Lincoln Road that will close that area for at least two weeks. When that wall is finished, Nadine will close near Allegheny River Boulevard for at least two more weeks for construction of a second wall.
After the walls are done, the road will be paved from Lincoln to Allegheny River Boulevard. The road will remain open during paving with flaggers controlling traffic.
The project is among several Northeast has under a $10.7 million contract with the county.
The contractor has been working on Nadine since February to remove a pipe restricting water flow from a box culvert, reline a stream and improve the base of the roadway to solve repeated landslide problems.
In Pittsburgh, work on a $16.3 million project to improve East Carson Street will close South 15th and South 17th streets between East Carson and Bingham streets. Work begins at 6:30 a.m. Monday and will continue through early September.
Motorists can use South 18th and South 13th streets during the closure. East Carson will remain open with one lane of traffic in each direction.
Golden Triangle Construction is expected to finish the safety improvements — paving, traffic lights, bumpouts so pedestrians have less distance to cross the street and highvisibility crosswalks — by the end of November.
In Squirrel Hill, Wilkins Avenue will be closed to eastbound traffic for two weeks beginning at 7 a.m. Monday for concrete patching between Beeler Street and Shady Avenue. The westbound side of the road will remain open.
The detour sends traffic on Beeler Street to Forbes Avenue and Shady Avenue, then back to Wilkins.
Milling and paving, concrete patching, base repairs, drainage improvements, manhole and utility box work, and pavement marking installation began last month on several streets in the area: Beeler between Forbes and Wilkins avenues; Wilkins between Beeler and South Dallas; and South Dallas between Wilkins and Penn avenues.
It is part of several projects under a $4.15 million contract A. Folino Construction Inc. has with PennDOT and should be finished by late October.
One area where motorists caught a break was the reopening of the Sewickley Bridge on Saturday.
The bridge, which closed on July 17, opened two weeks earlier than planned.