Arrrrgggh!

For the next three months, that's what most people who usually travel North Hills' McKnight Road will be screaming, due to construction. Four out of the six lanes total between Pittsburgh and Ross are closed because of construction.

But recently, the expected traffic jams were curiously not that bad. Some attriubute it to the fact that Pittsburgh police officers are directing traffic at the "pinch point". However, it's probably more likely that many of the reported 40,000 usual motorists who use the short, narrow bridge on McKnight Road that crosses over Nelson Road have found alternate routes.

It's just as well, for they'll have to keep finding different ways around that section for the next three months -- during which the McKnight Road-Nelson Run Road Bridge undergoes repairs ordered by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

Police and PennDOT expect occasional gridlock at the merge point where motorists head north on McKnight, running into a bottle-necked single lane with northbound traffic exiting from I-279 onto McKnight.

To close, let's reiterate what has been said before...

Arrrrgggh!

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