{"id":291871,"date":"2026-09-22T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291871\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:24:09","slug":"route-183-concerns-bring-residents-penndot-and-police-together-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291871\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 183 concerns bring residents, PennDOT and police together | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERN TWP., Pa. \u2014 For drivers on Route 183, the concerns are nothing new. Traffic, speeding, and intersections that can be difficult to navigate.<\/p>\n

“The biggest complaint we get with phone calls is the intersections at different locations throughout 183,” said State Rep. Eric Weaknecht.<\/p>\n

Weaknecht says drivers have complained about getting onto the highway and making left turns across heavy traffic.<\/p>\n

Then there’s rush hour.<\/p>\n

“The aggressive driving during rush hour. People late for work, driving a little bit too fast, trying to get there. It’s really a problem,” Weaknecht said.<\/p>\n

He says traffic has increased as more people travel between Berks and Schuylkill counties for work.<\/p>\n

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So, he’s bringing PennDOT, state and local police, county planners and municipal officials together with residents Tuesday evening at the Reading Regional Airport.<\/p>\n

“So that we can get them to tell us exactly what’s happening with Route 183, answer questions, and give, most importantly, a timeline for those changes and improvements to be made,” Weaknecht said.<\/p>\n

But right now, even Weaknecht says he doesn’t know exactly what those improvements will look like.<\/p>\n

“Actually, I don’t know. So, I’m going to be learning as well this evening,” Weaknecht said.<\/p>\n

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Weaknecht said more than 130 people had RSVP’d ahead of the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TWP., Pa. \u2014 For drivers on Route 183, the concerns are nothing new. Traffic, speeding, and intersections…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,121008,3431,4900,128,130,129,53872,94960,231,10497,31140],"class_list":["post-291871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-intersection-safety","tag-penndot","tag-public-meeting","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-regional-airport","tag-route-183","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-speeding","tag-traffic-congestion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291871","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=291871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}