PITTSBURGH — UPDATE 7:30 p.m. The Commercial Street Bridge is officially reopened! Drivers can be seen traveling in both directions on the bridge.
Tune in to Channel 11 News at 11 p.m. for updates as we continue to monitor the project.
ORIGINAL COVERAGE: We now know exactly when the Parkway East is expected to reopen in the area of the Commercial Street Bridge project.
Gov. Josh Shapiro, in a press conference on the bridge Monday afternoon, said the roadway will start reopening at 8 p.m.
The eastbound lanes will open first, followed by the westbound lanes shortly after.
Project executives say a combination of successes over the last several years is allowing them to open the parkway early.
“The slide that took place to get the bridge in place is the largest known structure to slide in place in the United States of America,” Governor Josh Shapiro said.
PennDOT, along with Pittsburgh’s mayor and Pennsylvania’s governor, announced the Commercial Street Bridge would open at 8 p.m. tonight, one week ahead of the originally scheduled opening date: August 3.
They’re calling it an engineering marvel.
“As we’ve said, 22 million pounds slid 102 feet over the course of a couple of days after the other bridge was imploded and then set down on its foundation. It’s a marvel, and I’m not a civil engineer, but you don’t have to be one to realize what we have witnessed here, with the help of the live stream camera, is just a stunning achievement,” PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll said.
The transportation secretary went on to say the project was completed with over 140 hours of manpower with zero incidents reported.
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