{"id":175670,"date":"2026-04-25T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175670\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:28:15","slug":"west-reading-bridge-project-to-impact-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175670\/","title":{"rendered":"West Reading bridge project to impact traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gateway to West Reading is set to get a fresh look.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning April 27, the Norfolk Southern railroad bridge over Penn Avenue at Second Avenue is scheduled to be power-washed and repainted, borough officials said.<\/p>\n<p>During the project, which is expected to last two weeks, motorists can expect lane closures and delays in both directions Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re traveling through, please plan ahead, allow a little extra time, and follow posted signage to help keep everyone moving safely,\u201d Mayor Samantha Kaag said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gateway to West Reading is set to get a fresh look. Beginning April 27, the Norfolk Southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706,707],"class_list":["post-175670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg","tag-west-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175670","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=175670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}