From County of Berks<\/p>\n
The County of Berks announced significant progress in restoring and upgrading highway lighting on Route 422 along the West Shore Bypass, thanks to a collaborative e\ufb00ort with PennDOT, Pagoda Electric, and Met-Ed. Over the past several months, 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.<\/p>\n
While ongoing obstacles such as vehicle accidents and storm damage continue to create setbacks, the county\u2019s partnership with local agencies and contractors has delivered substantial results. Most notably, the Lancaster Avenue Interchange \u2014 one of the corridor\u2019s most problematic locations \u2014 is now better illuminated, marking a visible improvement.<\/p>\n
In just four months, the county and its partners have:<\/p>\n
Reinstalled and energized 12 light polesReplaced 27 damaged or missing luminariesReplaced three burned-out control boxesRepaired and reinstalled wiring in three pull boxesRelocated a pole on the eastbound Penn Street on-ramp to improve safetyInstalled nearly 1,000 feet of conduit and wiring to re-energize 50 lightsReplaced 27 burned-out lights<\/p>\n
\u201cTeamwork has been key to these improvements,\u201d said Bradley Reinert, Berks County Fleet Operations Manager. \u201cAlthough the corridor faces regular setbacks from weather and tra\ufb03c incidents, we\u2019re seeing major progress, and drivers can already see the di\ufb00erence \u2014 especially at key interchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next steps for the project include:<\/p>\n
Replacing damaged conduit and wires, including triplex, along 422 West near the Lancaster Avenue InterchangeTroubleshooting 31 poles currently without powerDeveloping a plan to restore power to the poles west of the Penn Avenue InterchangeReplacing four foundations, poles, and bases along Route 12Running 650 feet of new conduit and wiring to re-energize 11 poles on Route 12Replacing four accident-damaged poles and two overpass poles on Route 12 near 422<\/p>\n
The County of Berks will continue working closely with PennDOT, Pagoda Electric, and Met-Ed to complete these upgrades, improve roadway visibility, and enhance public safety for all travelers along the 422 and Route 12 corridors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From County of Berks The County of Berks announced significant progress in restoring and upgrading highway lighting on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-17748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","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\/17748","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=17748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}