Portion Of Thompson Run Road In Ross Closed

ROSS TOWNSHIP, PA - Thompson Run Road between Radcliff Drive and Evergreen Road is closed to southbound traffic for at least two weeks beginning Tuesday, the Allegheny County Department of Public Works announced.

The closure is necessary to replace a damaged portion of stone abutment on a Thompson Run bridge with reinforced concrete and to create a stream diversion.

The southbound southbound lane on that section of the road has been closed since June 7, when a consultant discovered during a routine inspection that a part of the bridge’s abutment had washed away during spring storms, making that lane of the bridge potentially structurally deficient.

Since then, stop signs have been used to control traffic where the road becomes a single lane. But that section of the road now needs to be closed to southbound traffic to create a work zone for the repairs.

Southbound traffic will be detoured using Siebert Road, McKnight Road, and Babcock Boulevard.