{"id":263209,"date":"2026-08-11T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263209\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:54:13","slug":"long-lane-reopens-amid-ongoing-roundabout-construction-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263209\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Lane reopens amid ongoing roundabout construction | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAXATAWNY TWP., Pa. &#8211; Long Lane has reopened in Maxatawny Township as crews work on a roundabout where the road intersects with Route 222.<\/p>\n<p>The reopened stretch of Long Lane between 222 and Topton Road closed in mid-May for reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>This construction marks the fourth roundabout on 222 in Berks County in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT says the roundabouts have helped reduce congestion and backups and keep citizens safe.<\/p>\n<p>The work is expected to be completed in September 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAXATAWNY TWP., Pa. &#8211; Long Lane has reopened in Maxatawny Township as crews work on a roundabout where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,84868,6650,3431,128,130,129,31013,106703,7878,16035,5831],"class_list":["post-263209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-long-lane","tag-maxatawny-township","tag-penndot","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-road-construction","tag-road-reopening","tag-roundabout","tag-route-222","tag-traffic-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263209","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=263209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}