{"id":97223,"date":"2026-01-26T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:54:08","slug":"rpa-extends-free-garage-usage-for-public-as-snow-removal-efforts-continue-across-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97223\/","title":{"rendered":"RPA extends free garage usage for public as snow removal efforts continue across Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Parking Authority (RPA) announced it is implementing additional temporary parking accommodations to support snow removal operations in the city.<\/p>\n<p>RPA officials say all city-owned parking garages will be open and available for public use through Thursday, January 29th at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, which has been extended from its previous end-date of Tuesday morning, is intended to reduce on-street parking and allow crews the time and space to safely clear city streets.<\/p>\n<p>RPA officials say this applies to parking garages only as surface parking lots are not included.<\/p>\n<p>The 6th &amp; Cherry parking lot will remain reserved exclusively for approved emergency vehicles during this period. This lot will not be open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and visitors are encouraged to use the available garages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Parking Authority (RPA) announced it is implementing additional temporary parking accommodations to support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5752,5541,28,736,128,130,129,5754],"class_list":{"0":"post-97223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-garage","9":"tag-parking","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-reading","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-reading-parking-authority"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97223","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=97223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}