Editing Interstate 579 (section)

==Route description==
[[File:2022-05-15 12 01 31 View north along Interstate 579 at Interstate 279 (North Shore Expressway-Parkway North) and Pennsylvania State Route 28 (East Ohio Street) in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|left|I-579 northbound approaching terminus at I-279/US&nbsp;19 Truck and PA&nbsp;28 in Pittsburgh]]
[[Image:I579.jpg|thumb|left|I-579 running through Downtown Pittsburgh]]
I-579 begins at an interchange with [[Pennsylvania Route 885]] (PA&nbsp;885; [[Boulevard of the Allies]]) and the approach to the [[Liberty Bridge (Pittsburgh)|Liberty Bridge]] over the [[Monongahela River]] in [[Downtown Pittsburgh]], heading to the north-northeast as a four-lane [[freeway]]. At the southern terminus, the highway has a northbound exit and southbound entrance providing access to 6th Avenue and [[Forbes Avenue]] near [[Duquesne University]]. The road passes several skyscrapers as it comes to an interchange at Centre Avenue with a northbound exit and southbound entrance that provides access to the [[PPG Paints Arena]]. Immediately following is a left exit in the northbound direction and a southbound entrance that connects to 7th Avenue that serves the [[David L. Lawrence Convention Center]]. At this point, I-579 runs to the west of the former site of the [[Civic Arena (Pittsburgh)|Civic Arena]] and comes to the [[Pennsylvania Route 380|PA&nbsp;380]] interchange, a northbound exit and southbound entrance, in addition to a southbound exit and northbound entrance accessing 6th Avenue and 7th Avenue. The freeway turns north as it passes over railroad tracks to the east of [[Union Station (Pittsburgh)|Union Station]], the [[Amtrak]] station serving Pittsburgh. Here, it is seven lanes total with three travel lanes in each direction and two reversible [[high-occupancy vehicle lane]]s (HOV lanes) in the center. The HOV lanes connect to Bedford Avenue near the Civic Arena at the south end. The highway turns northwest as it crosses the [[Allegheny River]] on the [[Veterans Bridge (Pittsburgh)|Veterans Bridge]]. A short distance after the bridge, I-579 ends at an interchange with [[Interstate 279|I-279]]/[[U.S. Route 19 Truck (Pittsburgh)|US Route&nbsp;19 Truck]] (US&nbsp;19 Truck) and [[Pennsylvania Route 28|PA&nbsp;28]], at which point the route merges into northbound I-279 with ramps to and from westbound PA&nbsp;28.<ref name="google">{{google maps |url= https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=40.4355508,+-79.99477&daddr=40.4537,+-79.99678&geocode=FV__aAIdbmA7-w%3BFURGaQIdlFg7-w&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=40.435899,-79.993762&sspn=0.001862,0.005284&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14|title= Overview Map of Interstate 579 |access-date= January 15, 2011}}</ref>