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Joe Agnello, (724) 755-5262, (724)
755-5142 fax e-mail: jagnello@paturnpike.com |
August 27, 2001 |
TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Effective
at 7 AM Wednesday, August 29, access to Pa. Route 51 from the western
terminus of Payne Hill Road will return. Motorists
have not been able to access Route 51 from Payne Hill Road since July 24,
2000, when the intersection was closed as part of the Pennsylvania
Turnpike Commission’s construction of the interchange between Route 51
and the Mon/Fayette Expressway. Payne
Hill Road has been made a cul-de-sac near its previous intersection with
Route 51 and the western end of Payne Hill Road has been relocated to a
stop sign intersection with Jefferson Boulevard just east of Route 51. Jefferson
Boulevard is a new connector road that will carry traffic to and from the
Mon/Fayette Expressway when the 17-mile Mon/Fayette Project from
Interstate 70 in Fallowfield Township, Washington County to Route 51 in
Jefferson Hills opens in its entirety in First Quarter 2002. The
new connector road is approximately 2,000 feet long and hits Route 51 at a
signaled intersection near Three Rivers Bank. Construction of Jefferson Boulevard and a new western terminus of Payne Hill Road was part of a $21.8 million contract awarded to Swank Associated Companies, Inc. of New Kensington. |
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P.O. Box 67676, Harrisburg, PA 17106-7676 Phone: (717) 939-9551 Fax: (717) 986-9649 |