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Join Telegram ChannelPITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4 CHELSEA AND HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. A WEEKS LONG CLOSURE OF THE RAMP FROM THE INBOUND PARKWAY EAST TO ARDMORE BOULEVARD. WELL, THAT IS UNDERWAY. AND WHILE THE WORK IS IMPACTING A LOT OF DRIVERS, SOME NEIGHBORS WHO LIVE NEARBY ARE RAISING CONCERNS. YES, THEY ARE. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER MARCIE CIPRIANI YOU TALKED WITH ONE NEIGHBOR WHO SAYS THE WORK IS KEEPING HER UP AT NIGHT. MARCI. YEAH. ANDREW. THE FAMILY I SPOKE WITH LIVES ABOUT A MILE FROM THIS EXIT RAMP HERE IN WILKINSBURG, WHERE THAT WORK IS GOING ON. AND THEY SAY IT WAS SO LOUD OVERNIGHT. THEY THOUGHT SOMEONE WAS INSIDE THEIR HOME. THIS IS THE SOUND THAT ANNABELLE PETER SAYS JARRED HER AWAKE AT 2:30 A.M. IT WAS ACTUALLY REALLY, REALLY LOUD. IT JUST KEPT GETTING LOUDER THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT FROM HER UPSTAIRS BEDROOM IN FOREST HILL, SHE SAYS AT FIRST, SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS. IT WAS LIKE THIS BANGING NOISE AND THERE WAS LIKE THIS WEIRD BEEPING SOUND OR LIKE METAL GETTING BANGED AGAINST SOMETHING, PETER SAYS. IT WAS SO LOUD SHE THOUGHT IT WAS INSIDE HER HOUSE. YEAH. SO I WAS DEAD ASLEEP AND WOKE UP WITH MY DAUGHTER IN MY BEDROOM. UM, JUST REALLY FREAKED OUT. SO SHE RUSHED TO WAKE HER MOM, JENNIFER SAYS THAT’S WHEN THEY REALIZED THE NOISE INSIDE THEIR HOME WAS COMING FROM THE PARKWAY RAMP. ON DAY ONE OF THE FULL CLOSURE AT THE WILKINSBURG EXIT, LESS THAN A MILE AWAY. IT WAS EVERY 10S AND IT SOUNDED LIKE METAL BANGING. WE REACHED OUT TO PENNDOT, A REPRESENTATIVE TELLS ME THAT OVERNIGHT CREWS WERE BREAKING APART THE ROAD, AND THAT SHOULD BE THE LOUDEST OF IT. BUT SHE SAYS THE WORK WILL STILL BE LOUD, POSSIBLY THROUGH THE WEEKEND, AND THEN IT SHOULD QUIET. PETERS AND HER MOM ARE ASKING FOR LIMITS I PREFER STRONGLY THAT YOU KNOW IT, NOT CONTINUE PAST MIDNIGHT, BUT PENNDOT OFFICIALS SAY MAKING THOSE CHANGES WILL DELAY THE WORK AND COULD KEEP THE RAMP CLOSED FOR LONGER THAN THE SCHEDULED MONTH. THE SPOKESPERSON FOR PENNDOT SAYS IF THIS CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM FOR RESIDENTS, THEY ARE WILLING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM. BUT FOR NOW, SHE SAYS, THE WORK WILL CONTINUE AND THE LOUD WORK SHOULD BE DONE BY NEXT WEEK. REPORTING LI
Residents woken overnight by construction on Parkway East ramp
Residents woken overnight by construction on parkway ramp.
Updated: 6:44 PM EDT Jul 22, 2024
The first full day of the Parkway East ramp closure at Wilkinsburg started with what residents have described as banging and the sound of metal so loud that they thought someone was inside their home at 2:30 a.m.”I actually thought it was coming from inside my house, so I opened my door and listened in downstairs, and it was not that, so then I opened my window, and it got a lot louder,” said Annabelle Peters.Peters, a high school sophomore, said she ran in to her mother’s bedroom, worried. After some investigation, they said they learned the noise was coming from the ramp about a mile away. “I prefer strongly that they not continue past midnight,” said Peter’s mother Jennifer Koroskenyi.Pittsburgh Action News 4 reached out to PennDOT. A spokesperson said the overnight noise was the sound of crews breaking apart the road. They said that should be the loudest the work will be, but that noise will be heard throughout the week and possibly the weekend before the overnight work quiets.The Wilkinsburg ramp, westbound on Interstate 376, is scheduled to be closed for construction through the end of August.
The first full day of the Parkway East ramp closure at Wilkinsburg started with what residents have described as banging and the sound of metal so loud that they thought someone was inside their home at 2:30 a.m.
“I actually thought it was coming from inside my house, so I opened my door and listened in downstairs, and it was not that, so then I opened my window, and it got a lot louder,” said Annabelle Peters.
Peters, a high school sophomore, said she ran in to her mother’s bedroom, worried. After some investigation, they said they learned the noise was coming from the ramp about a mile away.
“I prefer strongly that they not continue past midnight,” said Peter’s mother Jennifer Koroskenyi.
Pittsburgh Action News 4 reached out to PennDOT. A spokesperson said the overnight noise was the sound of crews breaking apart the road. They said that should be the loudest the work will be, but that noise will be heard throughout the week and possibly the weekend before the overnight work quiets.
The Wilkinsburg ramp, westbound on Interstate 376, is scheduled to be closed for construction through the end of August.
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