Motorists planning on taking the Squirrel Hill Tunnel should prepare to alter their routes, because starting Sunday night the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Get ready for some significant delays at the Squirrel Hill Tunnel on the final weekend of the month. Officials with PennDOT say they will be closing down the inbound side of ...

PennDOT has announced plans to close the outbound side of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel. The closure is scheduled to start on Friday at 10 p.m. and continue through 6 a.m. Monday.

The Squirrel Hill Tunnels opened to traffic for the first time after a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 5, 1953, marking the completion of PennDOT’s single most expensive road project to that date.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials announced Wednesday that the outbound Squirrel Hill Tunnel on the Parkway East in Pittsburgh will be closed April 5-8.

PennDOT says the Squirrel Hill Tunnel inbound to Pittsburgh will be closed from 10 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday for concrete joint repairs. All inbound traffic will be detoured.

When it comes to traffic bottlenecks, the worst in Pittsburgh are going into the tunnels on the parkways, so PennDOT is planning to change the interchange on the city side of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.

It’s a project still years in the making, but it’s one PennDOT believes is important for drivers on the Parkway East near the city side of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.

“Fort Pitt sees about 80,000 vehicles a day, Liberty sees about 30,000, and the Squirrel Hill sees over 100,000 vehicles a day, it’s never a dull moment,” said Paul Manyisha who’s PennDOT ...

PennDOT has announced another around-the-clock closure for the Squirrel Hill Tunnel this weekend.