Traffic Advisories In The Area This Weekend

August 21, 2022 3:46 am

PennDOT is alerting motorists to two traffic advisories in the area this weekend.  Southbound Interstate 79 is closed at the Neville Island Bridge in Allegheny County for concrete repairs and bridge painting.  That closure is planned through 5:00 a.m. Monday.  Detours are posted, using Routes 65, the Sewickley Bridge, and Route 51.  expect traffic backups on that heavily traveled route.  PennDOT will also have daytime single lane restrictions on Interstate 70 in Westmoreland County the area of the Yukon and Madison exits starting Monday and running through September 1.  Those lane closures are for the replacement of concrete barriers.