Today is the first day that there won't be restrictions in the Squirrel Hill Tunnel, but it makes you wonder what's next for PennDOT's Commercial Street Bridge project.

KDKA's John Shumway wanted to know too, so he went looking for answers.

The answer is plenty as the building of the new Commercial Street Bridge is a huge, ambitious project that will crescendo with a full closure of the Parkway East next summer for 25 days.

Building a retaining wall along the right shoulder of the outbound lanes of the Parkway East outside the Squirrel Hill Tunnel is why there have been rush hour lane closures inside the tunnel for more than a month, but that restriction is gone now.

Rush hour pain for drivers may be gone, but PennDOT construction engineer John Myler says the work is far from finishe

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