{"id":94609,"date":"2026-01-23T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:35:09","slug":"free-parking-in-reading-garages-offered-ahead-of-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94609\/","title":{"rendered":"Free parking in Reading garages offered ahead of snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reading Parking Authority will provide free parking to city residents due to the predicted snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/01\/23\/forecasters-up-snowfall-to-12-to-17-inches-for-southeast-pa-parts-of-n-j\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service<\/a> is calling for 12 to 17 inches of snow for Berks County, starting early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>All city-owned parking garages will be open and available for public use from\u00a0noon Saturday through 7 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Surface parking lots are not included.<\/p>\n<p>The measure is intended to reduce on-street parking and allow city crews to safely and efficiently clear the streets, the authority said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>City residents are encouraged to move their vehicles to a garage so snowplows can clean the streets as effectively as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a06th and Cherry streets parking lot will be reserved exclusively for approved emergency vehicles\u00a0during the same period. To support emergency response operations throughout the storm, the lot\u00a0will not be open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and visitors are encouraged to use the available garages and assist in keeping streets clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reading Parking Authority will provide free parking to city residents due to the predicted snowstorm. The National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,857,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-94609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-essential-reading","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94609","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=94609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}