(Caption for Photo: The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission held an open house on Wednesday night where members of the community received updates on the ongoing Mon-Fayette Expressway project that plans to connect Route 51 to Interstate 376. Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of KDKA Photojournalist Gerome Williams)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvania Turnpike officials held an open house event last night for community members to get updates about the ongoing Mon-Fayette Expressway Project. The open house was held at the Holiday Inn Express hotel in West Mifflin where developers discussed plans for the third section of the southern portion of the project which will extend the expressway from Route 51 in Jefferson Hills to the Parkway East in Monroeville. According to developers, the goal of the project is to ultimately have a way to quickly travel from the West Virginia state line to the east side of Pittsburgh. The first section of the expressway that goes from Route 51 in Jefferson Hills to Camp Hollow Road in West Mifflin is expected to be open to traffic around the end of 2026.