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East Busway closed between Strip District, Oakland after landslide

A blue Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus parked on the side of a road downtown.
Kiley Koscinski
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90.5 WESA

The East Busway is closed between the Strip District and Oakland following an overnight landslide that blocked the road.

All buses are detouring via the Neville Street ramp through North Oakland, Bloomfield and the Strip District, where they are rejoining the busway via the 26th Street ramp. Pittsburgh Regional Transit says the detour is adding 15 to 20 minutes to each trip.

In a statement, spokesperson Adam Brandolph said the landslide is believed to have been caused by a water main break in the hillside above the busway. Crews are working to clear it, but there is no estimate on when the busway will reopen.

Jakob Lazzaro is a digital producer at WESA and WYEP. He comes to Pittsburgh from South Bend, Ind., where he worked as the senior reporter and assignment editor at WVPE and had fun on-air hosting local All Things Considered two days a week, but he first got to know this area in 2018 as an intern at WESA (and is excited to be back). He graduated from Northwestern University in 2020 and has also previously reported for CalMatters and written NPR's Source of the Week email newsletter.