LOWER ALSACE TOWNSHIP, Pa. – During a storm, a tree fell on Cornell Street in Lower Alsace, revealing a problem under the street.<\/p>\n
“I mean, it was a great big section,” says Diane Price, a resident of Lower Alsace TWP.<\/p>\n
“It was like a third of the tree; so, it went into the yard and into the street, and after they got rid of the tree, we found the hole in the cement,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n
Two holes have opened up along a stretch of Cornell Street, which is currently marked with no parking.<\/p>\n
Police say it’s dangerous to be on top of this road when they’re not sure how big of an issue lies underneath.<\/p>\n
“We want to be cautious so we do not have to come into a situation where someone gets injured, or property gets damaged,\u201d says Sgt. Nicholas Phillips, Central Berks Regional Police Dept.<\/p>\n
Lower Alsace Township officials say the issue is not a simple repair.<\/p>\n
The township road foreman says there is an approximately two-foot-wide by two-foot-high void underneath the concrete gutter, and because of its condition, it’s unsafe to park on the street.<\/p>\n
Central Berks Police put up signs and barricades, but people continue to park in the unstable areas.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Police say if this continues, people will start to get ticketed or towed.<\/p>\n
“We will be patrolling this block quite frequently. They’ll be seeing more of a police presence, and that’s not to be a jerk, that’s to keep people safe,” says Sgt. Phillips.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The township posted on social media saying there will be an approval of a quote for repairs at the August 12th meeting.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The parking may be limited for over a month, and the township asks community members to be patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER ALSACE TOWNSHIP, Pa. – During a storm, a tree fell on Cornell Street in Lower Alsace, revealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28562,108354,8512,89643,23260,294,128,130,129,6654,6656,26299,34893],"class_list":["post-254100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-community-impact","tag-cornell-street","tag-lower-alsace-township","tag-parking-restrictions","tag-police-enforcement","tag-public-safety","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-road-closure","tag-road-repair","tag-sinkhole","tag-storm-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254100","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=254100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}