{"id":204778,"date":"2026-05-28T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:30:07","slug":"extended-traffic-restrictions-planned-for-route-61-in-northern-berks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204778\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended traffic restrictions planned for Route 61 in northern Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction work that starts Tuesday will lead to single-lane conditions on Route 61 in both directions between Blue Mountain Drive and Lowland Road in Tilden Township, PennDOT officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic restrictions will be in effect around the clock northbound and southbound on the highway through Oct. 30, according to PennDOT estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The affected stretch of Route 61 goes from the commercial district northwest of Hamburg to the Schuylkill County line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction work that starts Tuesday will lead to single-lane conditions on Route 61 in both directions between Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706,2155],"class_list":["post-204778","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-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204778","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=204778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}