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Quote from: ARMOURERERIC on March 27, 2021, 09:58:00 PMUpdate Google imagery, shows the ramp to 79 south paved. As an aside, new imagrey for most of I70It seems weird that the satellite view shows the southern most paved stretch of the highway dead end into what looks like a hill. Shouldn't the land work have been started by now for the remaining stretch?
Update Google imagery, shows the ramp to 79 south paved. As an aside, new imagrey for most of I70
Quote from: JoeP2 on June 09, 2021, 12:45:09 PMQuote from: ARMOURERERIC on March 27, 2021, 09:58:00 PMUpdate Google imagery, shows the ramp to 79 south paved. As an aside, new imagrey for most of I70It seems weird that the satellite view shows the southern most paved stretch of the highway dead end into what looks like a hill. Shouldn't the land work have been started by now for the remaining stretch?It has. The I-79 interchange is right on the border of where Google updated their imagery. Looks like they got new imagery for Washington County but not Allegheny.
Quote from: Bitmapped on June 09, 2021, 04:37:04 PMQuote from: JoeP2 on June 09, 2021, 12:45:09 PMQuote from: ARMOURERERIC on March 27, 2021, 09:58:00 PMUpdate Google imagery, shows the ramp to 79 south paved. As an aside, new imagrey for most of I70It seems weird that the satellite view shows the southern most paved stretch of the highway dead end into what looks like a hill. Shouldn't the land work have been started by now for the remaining stretch?It has. The I-79 interchange is right on the border of where Google updated their imagery. Looks like they got new imagery for Washington County but not Allegheny.Actually the imagery is accurate, I was there 8 months ago for my dads burial, at that point the new Morgan Rd Bridge over the future beltway had just opened and excavation for the beltway interchange and mainline east of 79 did not really start until around November 1.
Jake, note the are to the SE, where the excavation parraells 79, not the over crossing of both 79 and 576 for Morgan Rd. As of last fall, though the Morgan Rd bridge existed, the trench for 576 abruptly ended there.
Although this will likely never happen, the author of the Pennsylvania Highways website believes that if PA Turnpike 576 were to "truly" be a bypass of Pittsburgh's eastern suburbs, the Southern Beltway's eventual eastern terminus would be, not at PA Turnpike 43, but at the mainline Pennsylvania Turnpike between Exit 67 and 75: https://www.pahighways.com/toll/PATurnpike576.html. What do the rest of you think about this?
Quote from: ARMOURERERIC on June 11, 2021, 04:44:19 PMJake, note the are to the SE, where the excavation parraells 79, not the over crossing of both 79 and 576 for Morgan Rd. As of last fall, though the Morgan Rd bridge existed, the trench for 576 abruptly ended there.I think I was trying to figure out what JoeP2 meant when he was talking about dead-ending into a hill. There is still work to do around the 79/576 junction, but I didn't see in jarring dead-ends.
Looks like the opening is nearing. Tucked away on the construction page is an invite to the "Community Day" on October 9, when you can bike/walk a five-mile stretch from PA 50 on west.https://www.patpconstruction.com/southern_beltway/22to79/community-day.aspx
Also shows that going WB on PA-TPK-576, the I-79 ramps will be split numbered, 18 for SB I-79 & 19 for NB I-79.
Has anyone clarified what the exit number from I-79 is? Wikipedia states Exit 49, but I cannot find any further evidence on that.