{"id":79547,"date":"2026-01-06T20:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:09:29","slug":"barta-route-and-schedule-changes-begin-jan-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79547\/","title":{"rendered":"BARTA Route and Schedule Changes Begin Jan. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority<\/p>\n<p>The South Central Transit Authority (SCTA) approved route and schedule changes for the Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority (BARTA) to be implemented on Monday, Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>A route-by-route description of the changes is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Route 1 \u2013 Temple via 5th Street:<\/p>\n<p>Approved to eliminate the time point outbound and inbound at 5th Street and Crescent Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Approved to adjust the time points to improve on-time performance.<\/p>\n<p>Route 8 \u2013 Reiffton\/Shelbourne Square\/Birdsboro:<\/p>\n<p>Approved to add four trips to Birdsboro in the afternoon between 12:50 p.m. and 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Approved to not serve the Boscov\u2019s Distribution Center on the 5:15 a.m. trip, instead to serve it on the 7:15 a.m. trip to better serve employee shifts.<\/p>\n<p>Approved to adjust the time points to improve on-time performance.<\/p>\n<p>Route 9 \u2013 Grill\/Kenhorst:<\/p>\n<p>Approved to provide service to Berks Nature, 575 St. Bernardine St., Reading, inbound and outbound.<\/p>\n<p>Route 10 \u2013 Brookline:<\/p>\n<p>Approved to serve the Shillington Plaza in the evening after 6:30 p.m., inbound only.<\/p>\n<p>Route 14 \u2013 Wernersville via Sinking Spring:<\/p>\n<p>Approved to not serve the Wernersville State Hospital from Womelsdorf on trips marked with \u201cA\u201d note on the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority The South Central Transit Authority (SCTA) approved route and schedule changes for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-79547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79547","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=79547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}