Traffic Alert: North Hills road closed through late May

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A road in Ross Township will be closed for several weeks, starting Monday.

Union Avenue is closed through late May between Edies Way and William Street while an existing structure over Spruce Run is replaced by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation with a reinforced concrete pipe culvert.

Here is the detour:

North of the closure

• Take Union Avenue northbound
• Union Avenue becomes Gass Road
• Turn left onto Ben Avon Heights Road
• Ben Avon Heights Road becomes New Brighton Road
• Follow New Brighton Road to Union Avenue
• End detour

South of the closure

• Same detour in the opposite direction

For more than a month, drivers in the North Hills will be inconvenienced due to a major construction project.

Union Avenue in Ross Township from Bellevue to Avalon needs major repairs, and until the end of May, contractors will be on-site.

“A lot of people are turning around. They seem lost and confused. I’m just worried about deliveries and things like that,” said Joanne Lapsley.

Lapsley lives near where vehicles are being detoured. The project, funded by PennDOT, is adding pipe culvert over Spruce Run.

“The road has so much traffic on it. I don’t know. It is going to be coming down going that way. There is traffic all day long,” said Lapsley.

The detours PennDOT has provided for drivers could add several minutes to commutes.

“I feel bad. I was just telling my husband, that’s a nice little quiet area up through there... I can’t even imagine what the traffic is going to be like up there with narrow roads,” said Lapsley.

Lapsley tells Channel 11 she will be staying home because of the extra aggravation caused by the lengthy detour.

“I normally go up that way, toward west view and McKnight Road, I probably won’t go as much now that I have to through the big ordeal down there,” said Lapsley.

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