With the weather on its side, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation marked the end of a successful construction season on Tuesday with more than 700 miles of roadway paved and 39 bridges repaired or replaced in the Pittsburgh region.

“PennDOT does not mind a drought,” Jason Zang, the District 11 Executive said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. “We can get a lot done and we took advantage of that.”

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