Traffic Alert: Fancourt Bridge, 10th Street Bypass Ramps Closing
The construction project will re-route thousands of commuters for the next several months.
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Weather permitting, PennDOT crews late Thursday will shut down the Fancourt bridge which carries the ramps from Fort Duquesne Boulevard to I-376 over the 10th Street Bypass until mid-to-late December.
About 7,461 vehicles use the Fancourt Bridge on an average day, a PennDOT statement said.
Crews will be reconstructing the Fancourt Bridge, including removing and replacing the superstructure, bridge deck, beams, bearings and approach slabs. Work also includes repairing sections of the retaining walls adjacent to the bridge along the 10th Street Bypass.
In addition, the ramps from the inbound Parkway East and Fort Pitt Bridge and the inbound Parkway North and Ft. Duquesne Bridge will be closed.
Detour signs will be posted.
The work is part of an $8.7 million project to improve various ramps on the Fort Pitt and Fort Duquesne bridges and the Parkway East/Central.
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Art Wegweiser
10:56 am on Friday, September 28, 2012
This latest project to screw up traffic will not likely affect me BUT why in hell can't they finish one project before starting others? The Rt 19 chaos near Wexford has been going on for months and months and months. I'm sure the business people along that disaster love it.