{"id":319873,"date":"2026-11-03T00:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319873\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T00:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:46:43","slug":"graffiti-bridge-in-ontelaunee-township-is-being-fenced-in-to-keep-the-public-away-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319873\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti Bridge in Ontelaunee Township is being fenced in to keep the public away | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONTELAUNEE TWP., Pa. &#8211; Fencing is being installed to keep people away from the &#8220;Graffiti Bridge&#8221; at Lake Ontelaunee.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the Reading Area Water Authority announced plans to remove the landmark within the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge was built by the City of Reading Water Bureau in 1927.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s owned by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and had been closed for 30 years due to deterioration.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on when the bridge will be dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONTELAUNEE TWP., Pa. &#8211; Fencing is being installed to keep people away from the &#8220;Graffiti Bridge&#8221; at Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[104886,103331,115301,2857,130055,1378,7874,294,24450,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-319873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bridge-demolition","tag-fencing","tag-graffiti-bridge","tag-infrastructure","tag-lake-ontelaunee","tag-ontelaunee-township","tag-pennsylvania-department-of-transportation","tag-public-safety","tag-reading-area-water-authority","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\/319873","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=319873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}