{"id":160302,"date":"2026-04-08T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:04:09","slug":"reading-not-making-progress-on-problems-with-loud-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160302\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading not making progress on problems with loud noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The noise problem in Reading that has been a constant complaint seems to be no closer to being solved than it was years ago. The law says to pipe down after 10 p.m. But on July Fourth and New Year\u2019s Eve, people believe the rule is to make noise until you want to stop.<\/p>\n<p>There are also constant drag races where the nonstop revving, roaring and tire screeching makes it sounds like the denizens of Hades have set up shop for the night, and some people on a particular street have had it with a guy blasting his car stereo until after midnight. People honk their car horns to get someone\u2019s attention at all hours, while others have car alarms going off that they either don\u2019t hear or simply ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Enforce the ordinance so people who have to work in the morning don\u2019t have to worry about being late due to an insensitive jerk.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Sheluga<\/p>\n<p>Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The noise problem in Reading that has been a constant complaint seems to be no closer to being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,5037,1559,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-160302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160302","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=160302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}