Port Authority T Stations Closing on Weekends
Two light rail stations in Downtown Pittsburgh will close each weekend for about four months starting Saturday, July 18.
The Gateway and Wood Street Stations will shut down each Saturday and Sunday through mid-November, meaning light rail service will terminate at the Steel Plaza Station along Grant Street on those weekends.
The two stations will close following the end of scheduled service each Friday and reopen prior to the start of service on the following Mondays. The closings will not impact weekday T service.
Bus shuttles will operate in Downtown Pittsburgh each weekend, transporting T riders to and from the Steel Plaza Station. The shuttles essentially will follow the T line, stopping outside the Wood Street and Gateway Stations. Transfers from the T to the shuttles are free.
The stations will close so that workers can build an underground rail crossover near the Wood Street Station. The crossover will play a vital role during the construction of a new Gateway Station, enabling inbound light rail cars to reverse direction at Wood Street Station.
This is necessary because neither Gateway Station nor the loop now used by light rail vehicles to turn around in Downtown Pittsburgh will be available during construction of the new station.
The weekend work, part of the North Shore Connector project, will end in mid-November, before the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend.
For more information, visit portauthority.org or contact a customer service representative at 412-442-2000 or the TTY number, 412-231-7007 for the speech and hearing impaired. Updates also will be posted on the Authority’s Twitter site at http://twitter.com/PGHtransit.