Posted on 10/09/2021 2:05:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
With just days to go before the Southern Beltway opens Friday, construction crews scurried throughout the 13-mile corridor to button up final details on the $900 million project.
The work included painting lines and installing signs to guide motorists; stabilizing walls beneath bridges that pass over the roadway so construction crews won’t have to dodge traffic when the road opens; finishing the structure of some of those bridges; and seeding and planting along the median and hillsides or placing stones in areas where growing has failed.
“We have things like line-striping to do, some signage to get done before the opening, but we’ll get there,” Steve Hrvoich, construction engineering manager for the Pennsylvania Turnpike, said late last week. The turnpike is building the toll road.
Plans for the highway date to the 1980s, when the late Allegheny County Commissioner Tom Foerster envisioned a beltway to improve access to what is now Pittsburgh International Airport. Turnpike contractors have spent the past five years leveling hills and filling in valleys to create the road that links Route 22 with Interstate 79 along the border of Allegheny and Washington counties.
The highway will provide a less-congested alternative to the Parkway West, especially for those headed to the airport from Washington County. The project also is expected to open thousands of acres of land for economic development, especially warehousing and spinoffs from the multibillion-dollar Shell Chemical Appalachia cracker plant under construction in Potter, less than 10 miles away in Beaver County.
Officials will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for what will be known as Interstate 576, then open the road in sections Friday, first from I-79 to the airport, then in reverse.
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PING!
Pennsylvania? Isn’t that where Big guy’ is from?
The Congressional Black Caucasians plan to hold a protest.
when i lived in ocean city maryland they had l.a.p.d. bumper stickers...
locals against pennsylvania drivers...
Not knowing about soil expansion after excavation is a surprise. That’s very basic.
Wonder if the team was stacked with AA hires...”diversity” and all that.
It’s where he mined coal and drove an 18 wheeler...
cracker plant?
I didn’t know they produced crackers in PA. I thought they were produced in Ocala.
Or, it is a type of vegetable or a Saltine and I missed something?
;^)
5.56mm
The Big Guy is from Delaware. He left PA at age 7.
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