City Of Pittsburgh Traffic Advisory

This Sunday, 8/17, the City’s Bridge Inspection Consultant will also be conducting bridge inspections on two structures in the Oakland neighborhoods. 

If the inspections proceed, they will require partial to full closures of: 

• Forbes Avenue Bridge (Central Oakland near Carnegie Mellon University) 

• Partial Closure (One Lane & Sidewalk Maintained) 

• Swinburne Bridge (South Oakland) 

• Full Closure 

These closures would come at a time when Oakland is already experiencing reduced access due to: 

• The closure for the Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge Rehabilitation Project 

• The closure of the Panther Hollow Bridge 

• A lane reduction on Fifth Avenue toward Downtown due to private construction and Pittsburgh Regional Transit University Line work 

Motorists should expect congestion, delays, and detours throughout Oakland and surrounding neighborhoods.