Mon/Fayette Expressway Project Public Notices
9.10.24 - Payne Hill Road will be closed for 45 days as part of the Mon/Fayette Expressway Project. The closure will take place from Tuesday, September 17, 2024, through Thursday, October 31, 2024. The road will be closed at the intersection of Jefferson Blvd and Payne Hill Road, meaning there will be no access to Jefferson Blvd from Payne Hill. For more information about the project, please visit www.paturnpike.com/monfayette.
8.30.24 - SR 51 will temporarily close between Worthington Avenue and Dick Corp Drive. from 10:00 p.m. on Friday, September 6, 2024, until 5:00 a.m. on Monday, September 9, 2024, as part of the PA Turnpike Mon/Fayette Expressway Project. During this time, crews will be installing overhead beams on the Mon/Fayette Expressway (PA Turnpike 43) over State Route 51. Traffic will be detoured via SR 837 into the City of Clairton, then onto SR 885, followed by Lebanon Church Road, and back to SR 51.
8.16.24 - SR 51 will temporarily close between Worthington Avenue and Dick Corp Drive. from 10:00 p.m. on Friday, August 23, 2024, until 5:00 a.m. on Monday, August 26, 2024, as part of the PA Turnpike Mon/Fayette Expressway Project. During this time, crews will be installing overhead beams on the Mon/Fayette Expressway (PA Turnpike 43) over State Route 51. Traffic will be detoured via SR 837 into the City of Clairton, then onto SR 885, followed by Lebanon Church Road, and back to SR 51.
2.14.24 - Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) is holding an open house for the community to learn about the next construction section of the Mon/Fayette Expressway PA Route 51 to I-376 Project. Section 53A2 will extend approximately two miles beginning just north of Coal Valley Road to north of Camp Hollow Road (S.R. 2043) near Curry Hollow Road in West Mifflin Borough. The open house will be held:
Wednesday, February 21 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
3122 Lebanon Church Road, West Mifflin 15122
(Parking in the rear of the building, enter through the back doors to get to the main ballroom)
PTC representatives and contracted project specialists will be available to discuss future road closures, detours, blasting zones and additional construction-related information about the 53A2 section of the Mon/Fayette Expressway.
For those unable to attend the meeting in person, the information is available on the project website at www.paturnpike.com/monfayette. The community is encouraged to submit their questions through the comment form available on the website. Project engineers will answer questions as they are submitted.
11.9.23 - The left lane of Rt. 51 will be blocked on Monday, November 13th, 2023 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., both Southbound and Northbound, as part of the PA Turnpike Mon/Fayette Expressway Project. Trumball Corporation will have signage in both directions alerting oncoming traffic of the lane closure. More information about the project can be found at
PA Turnpike Mon Fayette Expressway
10.9.23 - Coal Valley Road will close Monday, October 9th, 2023 as part of the PA Turnpike's Mon/Fayette Expressway Project. The closure will remain in effect for approximately 6 months with an expected reopening in April 2024. Traffic will now need to use State Route 837, State Route 885, or Walnut Avenue. More information about the project can be found at
PA Turnpike Mon Fayette Expressway.
7.17.23 - PA Turnpike has notified the Borough of upcoming blasting that is a part of the Mon-Fayette Expressway project. Blasting operations will begin on or around July 17th, 2023 and last through December 2025. Please review the public notice below.