READING, Pa. – Berks County gave an update Friday on how restoration work is going on a Route 422 project.<\/p>\n
Crews have been\u00a0restoring and upgrading highway lighting on Route 422 along the West Shore Bypass.<\/p>\n
In a news release Friday, the county said it has been working with PennDOT, Pagoda Electric, and Met-Ed.<\/p>\n
Coordinated overnight repair work has brought light and improved visibility to a heavily traveled section of roadway that has faced challenges with outages and damaged infrastructure, the county said.<\/p>\n
The county said the Lancaster Avenue Interchange is now better illuminated.<\/p>\n
The county says it has, so far:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Reinstalled and energized 12 light poles<\/p>\n
\u2022 Replaced 27 damaged or missing luminaries<\/p>\n
\u2022 Replaced 3 burned-out control boxes<\/p>\n
\u2022 Repaired and reinstalled wiring in 3 pull boxes<\/p>\n
\u2022 Relocated a pole on the eastbound Penn Street on-ramp to improve safety<\/p>\n
\u2022 Installed nearly 1,000 feet of conduit and wiring to re-energize 50 lights<\/p>\n
\u2022 Replaced 27 burned-out lights<\/p>\n
\u201cTeamwork has been key to these improvements,\u201d said Bradley Reinert, Berks County Fleet Operations Manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough the corridor faces regular setbacks from weather and traffic incidents, we\u2019re seeing major progress, and drivers can already see the difference\u2014especially at key interchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n
The county says next steps for the project include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Replacing damaged conduit and wires, including triplex, along 422 West near the Lancaster\u00a0Avenue Interchange<\/p>\n
\u2022 Troubleshooting 31 poles currently without power<\/p>\n
\u2022 Developing a plan to restore power to poles west of the Penn Avenue Interchange<\/p>\n
\u2022 Replacing 4 foundations, poles, and bases along Route 12<\/p>\n
\u2022 Running 650 feet of new conduit and wiring to re-energize 11 poles on Route 12<\/p>\n
\u2022 Replacing 4 accident-damaged poles and 2 overpass poles on Route 12 near 422<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Berks County gave an update Friday on how restoration work is going on a Route…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-13772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-reading-city","10":"tag-reading-city-headlines","11":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}