BERKS COUNTY, Pa. – West Reading, Leesport, and Boyertown are all receiving state funding through Pennsylvania\u2019s Green Light-Go program to modernize traffic signals and improve safety.<\/p>\n
In West Reading, the borough is getting just over $220,000 to upgrade signals at several busy intersections.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit over $220,000, and it\u2019ll go towards the intersections of 7th and Reading Avenue, 7th and Parkside, and then 8th and Hill\/Reading Avenue,\u201d said West Reading Mayor Samantha Kaag.<\/p>\n
The goal is to reduce congestion and make streets safer, especially for pedestrians.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe grant is for timing and modernization of the signals, to help clear some of that up and make it safer for pedestrians,\u201d Kaag said.<\/p>\n
In Leesport, the upgrades will focus along Route 61, specifically at Wall Street, Peach Street, and Cherry Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose improvements include the installation of video-controlled light cycles, which will eliminate the wired loop sensors in the road,\u201d said Leesport Mayor David Reimer.<\/p>\n
Leesport will also install emergency vehicle preemptors, technology that allows fire trucks and ambulances to trigger green lights as they approach intersections.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most significant improvement will be the installation of emergency vehicle preemptors. That will allow emergency vehicles to have the green light to go through intersections,\u201d Reimer said.<\/p>\n
And in Boyertown, nearly $700,000 will be used to replace aging traffic signals at East Philadelphia Avenue\u2019s intersections with Reading Avenue and Madison Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. – West Reading, Leesport, and Boyertown are all receiving state funding through Pennsylvania\u2019s Green Light-Go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,27994,39066,39068,16424,28,128,130,129,39067,707],"class_list":["post-75871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-boyertown","tag-david-reimer","tag-green-light-go","tag-leesport","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-samantha-kaag","tag-west-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75871","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=75871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}