{"id":5856,"date":"2025-10-17T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5856\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:15:12","slug":"reading-city-council-approves-downtown-vision-zero-action-plan-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5856\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading City Council approves downtown &#8216;Vision Zero&#8217; action plan | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Reading City Council voted on Monday night to approve a proposed downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/visionzeronetwork.org\/about\/what-is-vision-zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Vision Zero&#8221; action plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, council heard a presentation from Peter Simone, president of Simone Collins Architecture, Norristown, on a plan that lays out a strategy to create multimodal connections for cyclists and pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the plan is meant to reduce and eventually eliminate traffic-related fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>At his presentation of the plan, Simone said the movement is one that cities and communities are embracing across the country.<\/p>\n<p>By adopting the plan, the city will be qualified to apply for federal funding through the bipartisan infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>Simone said that by approving the plan by June 23, the city would still be able to meet the June 26 deadline for applying for the grant.<\/p>\n<p>Adopting the plan does not commit the city to do exactly what is specified in it, but will serve as a blueprint for planning.<\/p>\n<p>The grant funding could provide $1.44 million for the project, which would require a 20% match by the city of $360,000.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the whole project could be done for under $2 million because it entails simple improvements such a painting, creating bike lanes, adding signage and adjusting parking spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Reading City Council voted on Monday night to approve a proposed downtown &#8220;Vision Zero&#8221; action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5314,128,1095,130,129,5313,5312],"class_list":{"0":"post-5856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-peter-simone","9":"tag-reading-city","10":"tag-reading-city-council","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news","13":"tag-simone-collins-architecture","14":"tag-vision-zero"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","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=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}