Steven Adams | Tribune-Review
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Motorists who use the Tarentum Bridge will need to find another way across the Allegheny River for roughly half of June.
PennDOT said a 16-day closure of the bridge will begin at 7 a.m. June 9 and continue until late in the day June 25. About 30,000 vehicles use the bridge daily.
PennDOT spokeswoman Yasmeen Manyisha said poor weather could push back the scheduled construction dates.
The 16-day closure will allow crews to replace joints on the bridge and the latex deck. The work is part of a larger $3.2 million project that is expected to be completed in the fall.
Traffic stoppages lasting up to 15 minutes are planned Wednesday on the Tarentum Bridge, according to PennDOT.
The stoppages will occur as needed in each direction between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., PennDOT said.
PennDOT said crews will be performing jacking operations on the bridge while traffic is stopped between Caldwell Avenue in New Kensington and East Sixth Avenue in Tarentum.
A PennDOT spokeswoman said that when crews perform jacking operations, they are slightly lifting the bridge. When sections of the bridge are lifted, workers will remove and replace the old anchoring system the pedestals that the bridge beams sit on.
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Brief traffic stoppages will occur Wednesday on the Tarentum Bridge as crews perform work there, PennDOT announced Monday.
Stoppages of 15 minutes or less will happen as needed in each direction between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
During the stoppages, crews will perform jacking operations on the bridge, requiring traffic be stopped between Caldwell Avenue in New Kensington and East Sixth Avenue in Tarentum.
A PennDOT spokeswoman said that when crews perform jacking operations, they are slightly lifting the bridge. When sections of the bridge are lifted, they are removing and replacing the old anchoring system the pedestals that the bridge beams sit on.
Courtesy of National Aviary peregrine falcon nestcam
The peregrine falcons nesting at the Cathedral of Learning have four eggs expected to hatch in late April of 2021.
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Atop of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning where you can see the Laurel Highlands on a clear day prime real estate for peregrine falcons with expansive views and lots of prey a new couple drove out the former resident peregrines and are incubating four eggs.
State threatened peregrine falcons, the fastest animal on earth with dives exceeding 200 mph, have competed fiercely to call the Cathedral of Learning home and have been nesting there for 20 years.
PennDOT will begin preservation work on the Tarentum Bridge from March 15 to mid-April.
Crews will replace deteriorating concrete in the structure underneath the bridge, said Yasmeen Manyisha, PennDOT spokeswoman.
No traffic disruptions are planned.
However, some traffic restrictions are expected later this year when PennDOT works on other bridge repair projects, she said.
The preservation project includes structural steel repairs, painting the structural steel girders, concrete substructure and bearing repairs, expansion dam replacement and repaving a bridge ramp, according to PennDOT.
The agency will repave the westbound lane for traffic exiting to West Seventh Avenue in Tarentum.
Several chunks of concrete fell from the ramp in June 2019. No one was hurt, and no damage was reported.