Route 30 reconstruction progresses, but residents still upset

Visible progress is being made on the project to rebuild a portion of Route 30 that collapsed last month amid a spate of landslides in Allegheny County.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said there was no sign that collapse, which took out an apartment building down the hillside, was imminent, but residents disagree.

A retaining wall is going up beneath Route 30, but to one resident Stacey Hines, the progress comes a bit too late.

"It took em a long time to get to it because the road had been buckling way before that, so think that's something that should have been handled a long time ago," Hines said.

Despite complaints like this that Channel 11 has heard from numerous residents, PennDOT officials have said there was no sign that Route 30 posed a serious threat of giving way before it did in early April.

The agency plans to update the public Monday about the current construction, a project that's expected to last several months and cause major headaches for drivers who depend on the vital route through the East Side.

The press conference with PennDOT is scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday.

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